
Pictures by Sanat Kr Sinha
Rashbehari Avenue/Kalighat: Shibaji Roy, the 42-year-old businessman killed in the Ferrari crash on Sunday, was cremated at Keoratala on Monday evening.
Members of Club GT, an unregistered club of supercar owners in the city of which Roy was a member, said they were planning a memorial drive for him and wouldn't go for a drive this weekend.
Roy, along with club members, would go for drives on NH6 and Durgapur Expressway every Sunday.
"The fact that he is no more is unbelievable. We always follow safe driving rules and he was not one to take risks," Parveen Agarwal, the club president who was part of the seven-car convoy on Sunday, said.
On Sunday, Roy was driving his red California T back to the city from a Cafe Coffee Day outlet on Durgapur Expressway when he crashed into the parapet of the Pakuria flyover near Salap.
His teenaged son Shreyan was with him till the cafe. On the way back, Aashna Surana, 17, daughter of Roy's friend Adarsh, was with him.
She is on ventilation at CMRI hospital with multiple fractures.
"The patient is critical and on life support," a hospital spokesperson said. "Her vital parameters are unstable and doctors are trying to resuscitate her... so, X-rays and other investigations couldn't be done to ascertain the extent of her injuries."
One of the drivers in the convoy, who was behind Roy, had said on Sunday that a truck suddenly changed lanes and moved to the right without switching on its indicator lights. "Had the truck not switched lanes, Roy would not have had any trouble. But with the truck moving to the right, he was forced to swerve further right and crashed into the parapet."
On Monday, relatives, friends and employees of Roy, a director of ML Roy and Co Sanitations Pvt Ltd, started gathering in front of his three-storey house since morning.
Roy's cousin Sanjoy, 58, said the body had been kept at Peace Haven for his brother Subhajit to arrive from Croatia. Relatives, neighbours and friends laid wreaths on the hearse after it reached the house around 2pm.
Roy's son Shreyan and brother Subhajit performed the last rites at the crematorium in the presence of several people, including his classmates from South Point High School.
Parveen Agarwal, who was driving a black Lamborghini Aventador on Sunday, said he was still to come to terms with Roy's death. "We always follow safe driving rules and never speed. I still cannot believe he is no more," he said.
Club members are always advised to keep a gap of at least 400m, he said. "On Sunday, we had slowed down when we didn't see Roy in our rear-view mirrors... then one of the group members called to tell us about the accident."