Grandmother is crushed to death as Thar SUV rolls backward during parking in Farrukhabad, India.

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A 70-year-old woman was crushed to death after a Mahindra Thar SUV rolled backward during a parking attempt at a home in Farrukhabad, India, in an incident captured on CCTV.

The video directly establishes the core event. It shows the SUV being maneuvered into the property while the elderly woman stands by the gate. After the vehicle enters, she begins closing the gate. Seconds later, the SUV suddenly rolls backward. She is caught in its path, pushed outside the gate line, and pinned against a wall. Her screams can be heard as the vehicle continues back until it stops with her trapped between the SUV and the boundary wall.

That visual record is enough to treat the fatal crushing as a confirmed fact, not a claim or a possibility. The footage shows the vehicle reversing and the woman being crushed. It does not, by itself, prove the exact mechanical reason the SUV moved backward, nor does it establish legal liability beyond the immediate sequence visible on camera.

The incident happened in Farrukhabad district in Uttar Pradesh. Later coverage placed it in the Maseni area under the Kadri Gate police station limits and said it occurred at around 00:8:30 p.m. on April 2. The early report described the woman as helping her grandson park the SUV at the family residence when the fatal reversal happened.

The initial report also said the family did not want to pursue legal action because the case involved one of their own relatives. That point could not be confirmed from a first-party police portal during this search, but later reporting did move in the same direction procedurally. A subsequent report citing a police statement said no formal written complaint had yet been submitted by the family to the local police station.

The clearest later development was the police version of what likely caused the vehicle to move. According to that later report, quoting a statement attributed to Fatehgarh police, the grandson forgot to apply the handbrake properly. Police said the SUV then rolled down the slope while the woman was closing the gate and crushed her against the rear wall. That explanation fits the motion visible in the CCTV footage, but it should still be understood as the police account reported in the press, not as a final technical reconstruction released in a full public accident report.

Another detail added in later coverage was the identity of the victim. She was identified as Sarla Katiyar, and one report described her as a former healthcare worker. That same later coverage said her son operated a medical shop in Farrukhabad. Those personal details were not necessary to establish the crash itself, but they help confirm that later reports were dealing with the same incident and not a recycled or miscaptioned viral video.

The video remains the strongest piece of evidence in the case. It shows the grandson bringing the Thar into the premises while the woman manages the gate. Once the SUV is inside, she shuts one side of the gate and then the other. At that point, the vehicle surges or rolls backward unexpectedly. She tries to react, but there is no time. The SUV drives her into the wall and stops only after crushing her. A young man then runs toward the vehicle, appears to try to open the door and stop it, and rushes for help.

There is one point where the reports vary slightly in wording, though not in substance. Some describe the vehicle as suddenly going into reverse. Others describe it as rolling backward because the handbrake was not engaged. The safer wording is that the SUV moved backward during the parking process and fatally pinned the woman. That is fully supported by the video, while the exact reason for the backward movement comes from later reporting and police attribution.

Police were reported to have reached the scene and started an inquiry after the woman’s death. One report said the case appeared prima facie to be an accident, with officers examining the CCTV carefully. The later police statement, as quoted in the press, also said peace and order prevailed at the scene and that further action would depend on a formal complaint.

That leaves the public record in a relatively narrow but clear state. A woman helping her grandson park a Thar SUV was crushed to death when the vehicle rolled backward at a home in Farrukhabad. The CCTV footage proves the fatal parking accident itself. Later reporting attributed to police says the handbrake was not properly applied and that no formal complaint had yet been filed by the family.

News story written by Tifa Winters.

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