“After removing Rishabh, I quickly searched the car to check if anyone else was there. I took out his blue bag and ₹ 7,000-Rs 8,000 rupees from the car and gave it to him in the ambulance,” he said.
New Delhi: A Haryana Roadways bus driver who was among the people who took cricketer Rishabh Pant out of the Mercedes SUV after it crashed into a road divider has said he did not know who the injured man was and acted swiftly to promptly for an ambulance.
Sushil Mann, the bus driver, told NDTV that the SUV was coming at high speed from the opposite direction and it hit the divider.
“I put my bus on the side and quickly ran towards the divider,” Mr. Mann added.
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“I thought the car would flip under the bus as it was turning over and over before it stopped,” he said. “The driver (Mr. Pant) was half out of the window. He told me he’s a cricketer,” Mr. Mann said, adding the cricketer asked him to call his mother, whose phone was, however, switched off.
He further said, “I don’t watch cricket and I didn’t know this was Rishabh Pant. But others in my bus recognized him.”
“After removing Rishabh, I quickly searched the car to check if anyone else was there. I took out his blue bag and ₹ 7,000-Rs 8,000 rupees from the car and gave it to him in the ambulance,” he said.
The police have said Mr. Pant dozed off, leading to the crash this morning while he was going to his hometown Roorkee.
The Mercedes SUV caught fire after the high-speed impact. Mr. Pant is under observation at a hospital.
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