India, March 29 -- An evening walk proved costly for an 80-year-old woman who was fatally crushed by a reversing hydraulic crane near Prime Mall in Vile Parle on Thursday. The driver, a 20-year-old, fled the scene fearing public outrage.

Constable Narendra Namdev Teli, 49, of the Juhu police station, was on patrol duty when he received an alert about the accident. Rushing to the scene, he found a yellow hydra crane parked on the road and the woman trapped beneath its rear section.

According to eyewitnesses, the crane operator was driving recklessly when he struck the woman while reversing. Upon realising the accident, he abandoned the vehicle and escaped. "I saw that her hand had detached from her shoulder, and she was bleeding profusel...