Anand Mahindra takes a pledge after Cyrus Mistry’s death in car accident
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry and his co-passenger Jahangir Pandole, killed in the road accident in Maharashtra’s Palghar on Sunday, were not wearing seatbelts. A preliminary police investigation has found that the car in which the 54-year-old industrialist was travelling was over-speeding. Mistry’s last rites of Mistry will be performed on Tuesday at 10 am at Worli crematorium.
New Delhi: Former Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry‘s death in a car crash in Maharashtra on Sunday has left everyone in shock. Police’s preliminary probe has found that Mistry and his co-passenger Jahangir Pandole were sitting in the back seat without a seat belt.
The tragic death of the 54-year-old businessman has also shifted the focus to car and road safety rules. In the aftermath of Mistry’s demise, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra on Monday made a promise, saying “we all owe it to our families.”
Urging everyone to take this pledge along with him, Mahindra said, “I resolve to always wear my seat belt even when in the rear seat of the car. We all owe it to our families.”
He also paid his tribute to the former Tata Sons chairman on Sunday sharing that he got to know Cyrus during his all-too-brief tenure as the head of the House of Tata. “Hard to digest this news. I was convinced he was destined for greatness. If life had other plans for him, so be it, but life itself should not have been snatched away from him,” the Mahindra Group chairman said.
Cyrus Mistry car crash
Former Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Pallonji Mistry and his co-passenger Jahangir Pandole, killed in the road accident in Maharashtra’s Palghar on Sunday, were not wearing seatbelts. A preliminary police investigation has found that the luxury car in which the 54-year-old industrialist was travelling was over-speeding.
The police further said that over-speeding and “error of judgement” by driver Anahita Pandole caused the accident. The tragedy occurred when Mistry’s Mercedes, in which he was returning to Mumbai from Ahmedabad, “banged into a divider” near Charoti in Palghar on Sunday. The accident took place on a bridge on the Surya river.