New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- A 49-year-old businessman died late Wednesday night after falling nearly 30 feet from the NH-9 flyover near West Vinod Nagar in east Delhi, when an allegedly speeding Honda City car hit his scooter, police said on Thursday.

The crash occurred on the NH-9 carriageway heading towards Ghaziabad from Sarai Kale Khan. The victim, identified as Rakesh Kumar Agarwal, a resident of Vasundhara Sector 11 in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, landed on the NH-24 service road below and sustained multiple fatal injuries. Police said Agarwal owned a disposable plates manufacturing factory in south Delhi's Badarpur.

The car's driver fled the scene, abandoning the damaged vehicle on the flyover and leaving Agarwal on the service road. It ...