The Koyambedu Traffic Investigation Police are on the lookout for a 45-year-old man in a hit-and-run case involving an unidentified person near the Koyambedu flyover on Monday night.
The police said a speeding car, owned by Gandhi of Anna Nagar West Extension, hit a 40-year-old man, who was crossing Poonamallee High Road near the Koyambedu flyover, on Monday night. Immediately, the car’s driver asked an autorickshaw driver to take the victim to a private hospital in Arumbakkam and left the spot. However, the man was pronounced dead at the hospital. The police sent the body to the Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital for a post-mortem and booked a case against the car driver for causing the accident.