MUMBAI: A car, with the valet attendant seated inside, tumbled about 25 feet down a parking lift shaft at a housing society in Charkop Sector 3, Kandivli West, around 9.30 pm on Monday. The incident occurred at the ground-plus-21-storey Horizon Gold building near Ganesh Chowk. According to information provided by the police, the fire brigade and the owner of the car, Subhash Kumar Yadav, the valet attendant was steering the car parked on the second-floor podium out of the building at the owner’s request. Yadav seemed to be unaware that the parking platform was not aligned with the lift and drove into the shaft instead. The Alto car, with Yadav seated inside, fell about 25 feet. People pre sent in the building managed to extricate Yadav and took him to the Aastha Hospital in Kandivli. “It is an unfortunate incident. The valet parking attendant claims to have lost control of the car. I had asked for the car to be brought out of the parking area as I was stepping out of the building. The attendant was bringing the vehicle out when the incident took place. It is not clear whether he applied the brakes or whether he couldn’t control the car de spite applying them and rammed through the metal sheets covering the entrance. In any case, it is human error, and it was not a deliberate act on the part of the attendant. Fortunately, the attendant escaped wit-hout serious injuries despite the car tumbling down,” said Vipul Doshi, the owner of the car and husband of BMC Improvements Committee Chair person Sandhya Doshi. Yadav (30), who suffered leg injuries, was treated at the hospital and discharged. Fire brigade officials said Horizon Gold is a residential building with a ground floor, four podium levels, and residential flo-ors from the fifth to the 21st floor. Following the incident, a crane was requisitioned, and a private Hydra crane was deployed to remove the damaged car from the parking lift pit. “It is for the police to investigate who is at fault in the incident,” said a fire brigade official. The Charkop police were summoned to the spot. Police said the car was completely mangled. However, they added that no complaint had been received.
