Car driver fined ₹ 11000 for not giving way to an ambulance in Mysuru

A car driver who blocked the way of an ambulance that was taking an 85-year-old man suffering a heart attack and subsequently died on the way on Saturday was fined ₹11000 in Mysuru. On August 22, Chandrashekhar Acharya, 85, suffered a heart attack and was en route to a multi-specialty hospital in Mysuru in an ambulance, Kishore, the driver reached Belavadi Junction in Mysuru around 8:30pm, where the road was blocked by a car, driven by Jayanth. Kishore, repeatedly pressed the horn, the patient’s relatives beseeched him, the argument went on for 15minutes and by the time the ambulance reached the hospital, Acharya was declared dead. Doctors told the relatives that the time lost in bringing him may have cost his life.

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News source: Times of India

Update by Swarolipi Chatterjee