India, Sept. 16 -- The man who rushed a Delhi couple to hospital after a fatal accident on Sunday said he had no idea that the woman directing him from the passenger seat of his van to drive to a specific hospital around 20km away was the driver of the BMW that had run them over.

"I thought the woman who came and sat in the passenger seat had come to help them. I didn't know she was the one whose car had hit them," said Mohammed Gulfam who had driven the victims -- Navjot Singh and his wife Sandeep Kaur -- to Nulife Multi Specialty Hospital in GTB Nagar.

Navjot Singh, 52, deputy secretary at the Union ministry of finance, and his wife Sandeep Kaur, residents of west Delhi's Hari Nagar, were on their motorcycle when the BMW X5 SUV, drive...