Three killed doing a wheelie

E-Paper | March 16, 2026

LAHORE: Three boys were killed and another injured after their motorcycles hit each other while one-wheeling on Ring Road early on Sunday.

Ring Road police checkpost in-charge Shakoor Baig said three of the four riders on two motorcycles were killed when their vehicles hit each other and crashed into a roadside barrier. He said they were attempting stunts when they lost the control over their bikes and crashed. Three of the boys were killed on the spot while the fourth was shifted to a nearby hospital where he was said to be in critical condition.

Baig said no traffic warden was on duty at the time of the accident that happened around 5:30am, while traffic police were deployed at 7am.

Quoting witnesses, he said the boys were attempting one-wheeling when handlebars of their motorcycles got entangled and they crashed into the roadside barrier.

The deceased were identified as Abdul Rehman, 18, Ali Raza, 20, and Ali Haider, 21. The fourth was not yet identified until the filing of this report.

Published in Dawn, July 6th, 2015

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talha

Jul 06, 2015 09:09am

Bikes should be banned. This is what will keep on happening..

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Sid

Jul 06, 2015 09:28am

what a careless loss of life. These kids never had their parents in their mind! ALAS!

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Hussain Mittar

Jul 06, 2015 09:55am

Question arises... were the bad luck stricken parents alive to their kids irresponsible road ventures and they have performed their parenting duty faithfully?

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Lalu prasad

Jul 06, 2015 10:08am

@talha what a lame advice...must belong to govt advisory. Means of transport should be banned because of accidents?... first cause of the accident was that parents give their ccess motor bikes to their young sons but dont keep an eye on when and how their sons use this bike. Police take Rs 50. And leavd the motor bike rider riding without licence...third....people around us have stopped stopping people from doing wrong...

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Danish Haider

Jul 06, 2015 10:09am

Really a very sad event for the families of deceased and all fellow Pakistanis. Motor Sports is an adventurous game. There are safety requirement off course this cannot be done on open roads without proper protective gears.

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Lalu prasad

Jul 06, 2015 10:31am

Such a waste.....but a lesson to those parents who dont know what their children are doing..

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Zak

Jul 06, 2015 11:28am

I do all kind of antics on my bike the Hayabusa GSX1300R , but never had any kind of accident or any injury, i always wear a helmet and full body gear .

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Jul 06, 2015 04:13pm

Loss of young kids is tragic. It is the parents and police system who are responsible for the deaths. Couple of days back I had to take a friend to hospital in emergency, around 4.30 in the morning. On 7th Avenue, Islamabad; there were around 100 young boys witnessing motor cylce wheeling, races and different stunts. They were using both sides of double road for racing. It was terrible, I had to move on the road at dead slow speed. As I passed the stretch I called 15; the person said he can do nothing call 1915; 1915 never responded. I could clearly make out that the kids were from the localities around the 7th avenue . Some elder or parent ought to know about it.

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mansoor

Jul 06, 2015 07:13pm

@Zak I am sure you have been trained to drive such a powerful monster. I once tried to buy Kawasaki Ninja, a mere 550 cc and was declined as I neither had the experience to drive a bike nor the necessary skills. I was nicely talked out of buying a super bike and I am now glad for the advice.

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Adil Jadoon

Jul 07, 2015 02:27am

@Hussain Mittar at 0530 am ??? maybe they were returning from their morning prayers!

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