A 38-year-old motorcyclist, who was critically injured in a road accident, succumbed to his injuries hours later as the ambulance carrying him could not reach KEM hospital in time due to traffic snarls, police said.

The bike of the victim, Sachin Vetoskar skidded and he came under the wheels of a gas tanker near Amar Mahal junction in Tilak Nagar area of Chembur on the Eastern Express Highway on Monday around 2.15 pm, they said.