New Town accident Police yet to retrieve data from vehicle

Kolkata | Thursday | 14th November, 2019

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Kolkata: Police and forensic experts are finding it difficult to retrieve information from the data recorder of the car which met with an accident on Tuesday in New Town, which claimed the lives of three youths. As the car was damaged badly due to the impact of the collision, the electrical system had stopped functioning due to a short-circuit. In such sophisticated cars, the electrical connection automatically gets disconnected after an accident to save the car from fire due to short-circuit. On Tuesday, forensic experts tried to provide power from an external source to the electrical system of the vehicle in order to retrieve the data. Apart from this, forensic experts and police came to know that the airbags, which came out after the collision, were not inbuilt and had been attached later..