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An employee of B J Medical College, Baby Balasaheb Jadhav was sitting by the edge of the vehicle, with her leg resting on the door when the rickshaw collided with the railing. Due to the impact, her left foot severed and fell on the road,” said Sunil Jadhav, the victim’s son choking on his tears.
The rickshaw driver refused to stop the vehicle and took the rickshaw near B J Medical College, where he abandoned vehicle with Jadhav in it.
A police complaint was registered at the Wanavdi police station booking the driver under IPC and the Motor Vehicle Act for rash and negligent driving. The police visited the spot, recovered the foot and handed it over to the hospital at around 11 am. “If the foot had reached the hospital earlier, probably her leg would have been saved. But she had already lost a lot of blood and the doctors told us that they would have to amputate her leg,” said Sunil.
“She kept repeating that the road was devoid of many vehicles at that time. We suspect that the driver was drunk,” said Sanjay Mirekar, Jadhav’s nephew.
When asked about the six-seaters and the roomier autorickshaws plying on city roads, an officer from the RTO said that while six-seaters were banned from plying within the city limits, some of the bigger than normal autorickshaws run with permits that they had secured before the resolution banning six-seaters was passed in 1999.
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