Boy, 2, dies as ambulance crashes into truck on DND
4 INJURED Was being moved on life support to Safdarjung, attendant also killed
NEW DELHI: A two-year-old child who was on life support and being shifted from a Greater Noida hospital to Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi died when the ambulance in which he was being carried rammed into a slow-moving truck on the wrong lane of the DND Flyway in the early hours of Friday, the police said.
The toddler, identified by the police as Saurabh, died along with 30-year-old ambulance attendant Sunil Kumar, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, in the accident which left the child’s pregnant mother Manoo, 35, father Suresh, 35, and his fouryear-old brother, whose name wasn’t known, injured.
The injured members of the family were admitted in the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi for treatment. The ambulance driver, 25-year-old Vipin Kumar, was admitted in Greater Noida’s Sharda Hospital.
The police said the accident took place at around 4.30am. Joint commissioner of police (eastern range) Alok Kumar said the Mayur Vihar police station received a call around 4.40am reporting that an ambulance had rammed a truck on the DND Flyway.
A police team that reached the spot found that the ambulance had been severely damaged, and had to call the fire brigade for assistance in extricating its occupants, the officer said.
Chief fire officer, Atul Garg, said his men had to cut open the ambulance to pull out the occupants. “All of them were rushed to different hospitals with the help of the police,” Garg said.
The joint commissioner said the ambulance driver was taken to Sharda Hospital in Greater Noida and the attendant to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital.
“The two-year-old child, his father, mother and brother were taken to AIIMS Trauma Centre. We late received information from the hospitals that Saurabh and Sunil Kumar succumbed to their injuries. The truck driver and other family members are critical and we are yet to record their statements,” the officer
said.
A doctor at the AIIMS Trauma Centre said the four-year-old was fine. “He does not have any major injuries. But he is young and just to ensure that he is okay, we have kept him under observation. The father has a fracture of the hip bone and has been admitted for treatment. The mother has some soft-tissue injuries (which happen due to sprains and contusions) and does not need admission. The ambulance driver left the hospital against medical advice,” said the doctor requesting anonymity.
The doctor did not comment about the state of the woman’s pregnancy.
Police said the toddler’s family belonged to Chitrakoot in Madhya Pradesh. His father works as a security guard in a private firm at Noida.
The boy had been suffering a breathing ailment following which he was being treated at Yatharth Super Speciality Hospital in Greater Noida. “The family was travelling to Delhi after