Unfortunate: Doctor, patient among 3 dead after ambulance rams moving truck
Bengaluru: A doctor and a patient among 3 died on the spot in a nasty road accident after an ambulance they were travelling in rammed a moving truck at Neralur Gate near Attibele during the early hours of Thursday.
The deceased doctor has been identified as a 40-year-old native of Igatpuri, Nasik district in Maharashtra.
On Wednesday, a patient suffering from paralysis was being transported from Mumbai Kalyan to Chennai for further treatment in the ambulance. There were seven persons, including two doctors and a patient, in the ambulance.
However, on Thursday morning around 5:30 when they reached Neralur near Attebele, the ambulance driver, while trying to overtake a truck at Neralur Gate, lost control of his vehicle and rammed it, which resulted in the front portion of the ambulance suffering complete damage.
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Three of them including the doctor, the patient (68) and Tukaram Namdev Jamnade, 38, the driver of the ambulance, a native of Mumbai died on the spot. People around rushed the victims to a nearby hospital.
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