A heroic act of a bus driver in the last moments of his life saved the lives of 48 passengers travelling in the bus he was driving in India.
The incident took place in the Indian state of Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Friday night.
As per details, bus driver named Sana Pradhan started getting chest pain while he was driving an overnight bus to Bhubaneswar from Paburia village in Kandhamal district, a report in the media said.
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He realised he wouldn’t be able to drive too long and used his presence of mind to save the passengers by crashing the vehicle into a wall, bringing it to a halt before breathing his last, police said on Saturday.
Following the crash, Sana Pradhan was rushed to a nearby hospital but doctors there declared him dead due to cardiac arrest, police said.
The vehicle left with the passengers for its destination a while later with another driver at the wheel, they said. The body of the bus driver was handed over to his family after a post-mortem examination, they added.
