Ghaziabad, Sep 10 - Perhaps death was calling out to her. What else could have prompted Sangeeta Goel, who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy, to take to the wheel and drive down 200 km from Bijnore town in Uttar Pradesh, putting herself and the unborn child in clear danger?

On the rough and tiring road, she gave birth to a baby girl - but neither made the journey.

Police in Modinagar, the town where Sangeeta and her child died and which is barely 50 km from Delhi, narrated the heartrending incident to IANS Thursday, a day after it occurred.

Sangeeta was in her early 30s. A resident of Defence Colony in south Delhi, she was visiting her in-laws in Bijnore, said Kapil Deo Singh, a Modinagar police officer. It is yet to be ascertained what led her to drive her Zen car from there to Delhi.

Her sister Vineeta, who lives in Noida, told police it was a call from Sangeeta's husband that prompted her to do it.

Police quoted Vineeta as saying: 'Why did jeeju (Sangeeta's husband) ask her to reach Delhi in such haste? He didn't know how she would drive so long in such an advanced stage, but he insisted that she reach Delhi immediately, and it proved fatal.