kolkata a 23yearold lighting contractor who loved speed died after a highoctane ride on a superbike spun out of control and hit a flyover guard wall catapulting him across the barrier sudip mondal who fell 40ft from the flyover to the road below was killed in the impact the incident took place on sampriti flyover that connects jinjirabazar to batanagar on friday night police said the bike priced around rs 16 lakh was travelling at 140 km per hour mondal probably lost control over the bike and hit the guard wall he was flung across it and landed on the ground below the extent of damage the bike suffered showed the speed at which it was travelling said subhendu sarkar ic maheshtala police stationlocals said mondal died immediately after the fall i was on my way home after shutting my shop in chandannagar area and saw some locals standing around a body on the road i found the youth lying unconscious i immediately called some traders from the locality and took him to esi hospital i found his driving licence and mobile i called whatever numbers i found to contact his family members said shyamal karmakar a stationery shop ownerbapi naskar mondals brotherinlaw said sudip was a school dropout who started working as an electrician and then ventured into lighting supply business he was obsessed with highspeed bikes and had bought this motorcycle a few months ago on friday he left home in the afternoon he went to budge budge to attend ganesh puja at a friends house he returned to his neighbourhood in parnashree but did not go home at night he was again headed to budge budge when the accident took placethere have been a number of similar deaths in the past leading to a ban on twowheelers on most flyovers in the city after 10pm while the garden reach flyover has had several such deaths an accident on maa flyover had left everyone in shock the fall of a motorcyclist from the flyover was captured on a cctv camera