04 September,2016 09:05 AM IST | | Vinay Dalvi
Following the death of a traffic constable after being attacked by two youths in Khar, another was dragged half a kilometre stuck to a car's bonnet but survived with minor injuries due to his clever thinking
Traffic cop Narisingh Mahapure
Following the death of a traffic cop after being attacked by two youths in Khar, another traffic constable was dragged half a kilometre stuck to a bonnet of a car. He survived with minor injuries only due to his clever thinking.
Driver Yogesh Bhamre
Narisingh Mahapure, traffic constable attached with the traffic division of Thane police, Navpada division, was manning the streets as per his routine schedule in Thane' s Teen Haath Naka on Saturday afternoon. Mahapure saw that a Maruti Ertiga was driving on the wrong side, but the driver didn't stop.
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Mahapure then stood in front of the car, but unfortunately, instead of stopping, the car sped on. It was then that Mahapure jumped on the bonnet of the car to save himself. "The driver kept braking to try and throw off the constable. He drove the car for 500 metres and also ran over the foot of traffic warden Namanish Singh and then finally, stopped," said PG Kadbule, senior police inspector at Navpada police station. When the driver was taken out of the car, he was identified as Yogesh Bhamre, 27, a resident of Shashtri Nagar, Thane. "We have sent him for a medical test. We have found him to be drunk," said Kadbule. "I had decided not to leave the bonnet. I managed to wedge my fingers in the air vents. I knew if I had fallen, the car would have run over me," said 47-year-old Mahapure.
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Bhamre has been booked for culpable homicide, assault or criminal force to deter public servant, rash driving or negligent driving and causing act by endangering others life.
