LUCKNOW, March 26 -- A speeding SUV dragged a scooter for nearly 15 kilometres, from near a prominent shopping complex on Shaheed Path to near the city airport, after rear-ending it even as onlookers could only video-record the incident on their phones.

While the scooter driver, identified as Manish Singh, was hospitalised after he was thrown off by the collision that took place on Sunday, the SUV driver had been caught and jailed, police said. A video of the incident was doing the rounds on social media.

"The SUV driver was identified as Brijesh Kumar Singh, 55, who hails from Varanasi but works in a battery factory in Ghaziabad and lives there," said Rishabh Runwal, the Gosaiganj ACP.

"The accident occurred near Lulu Mall in Sushant ...