Mumbai: The Powai police booked an Andheri resident after his 17-year-old nephew, driving a car, lost control and met with an accident in Powai on Friday night. The car belonged to the uncle of the minor boy who had rammed it into a parked scooter and then collided with a nearby building’s gate in Powai.A police source said that the boy, aged 17 years and six months, did not have a driving license. The minor boy, who was allegedly on a joyride, took his uncle’s SUV car from Marol in Andheri and came alone in the car to Powai. The accident took place near a Mhada building while the boy was returning to Andheri.As soon as the boy lost control, the car reportedly crashed through a footpath railing, ramming into a parked two-wheeler scooter before colliding with the gate of a residential building. There were no pedestrians on the footpath at the time of the accident.The police have registered a case under sections 180 (Allowing unauthorised persons to drive vehicles), 184 (reckless driving) and 199A (offenses by juveniles) of the MV act. Sections of the BNS have also been invoked in the case. The car has been seized by the police and a team of RTO will inspect it too.
