Ludhiana: A biker had a slim escape when his automobile caught hearth on the busy Gill Highway flyover on Friday.
Vikram Saini, a 22-year-old resident of Sector 32, Chandigarh Highway, was going from Gill Chowk flyover in direction of Dholewal Bridge. Close to Pratap Chowk, in an try to save lots of a collision with one other automobile, he hit the divider on the flyover and his bike instantly caught hearth. His leg bought fractured and he obtained different accidents too.
When commuters noticed a burning bike and an injured rider on the roadside, they rushed to his assist and took him to hospital.
Passerby Harshdeep Singh, who was going in direction of his workplace, referred to as up the fireplace brigade. “There was a site visitors jam on the flyover. Once I seen a two-wheeler burning, I instantly referred to as up the fireplace brigade. As an alternative of calling emergency numbers, individuals had been busy making movies with their telephones,” he stated.
Vikram’s father Surjeet Saini, a businessman, stated, “My son had gone to repair a laptop computer in Kochar Market and when he was coming again he met with the accident. He was attempting to save lots of one other two-wheeler that was coming from the mistaken aspect when his bike hit the divider. He grew to become unconscious.” Fireman Vijay Kumar stated, “We obtained the data round 11.55am and after we reached the spot, flames had been nonetheless there.”
Police eliminated the stays of the bike from the spot.
Hearth in godown
Within the wee hours of Friday, a fireplace broke out in a godown in Jaspal Bangar, the place inventory of hosiery waste and yarn was saved. Hearth officers claimed that with well timed motion they had been in a position to management the blaze in two hours with two tenders. The rationale for the fireplace has not been ascertained but.