India, March 26 -- Shrinivas Tandle, associated with one of Kalyan's oldest cloth stores and well-known in the local business community, died in an accident on Tuesday evening when his bicycle was hit by a speeding car allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy.

The accident occurred on a stretch of the under-construction Kalyan Ring Road that runs parallel to the Ulhas River and had not been opened to traffic yet, residents and family members of the deceased said.

"The stretch is infamous for stunt bikers and motorists who drive recklessly. I demand strict action against the driver," said Ganesh Tandle, the deceased's brother.

Such was the intensity with which the car hit Tandle's cycle that he was flung a few metres in the air and died on...