KOLKATA: A car ran over the legs of a middle-aged man — resting under a tree shed in Salt Lake — on Tuesday afternoon.
The man was taken to a local hospital by the owner and driver of the same car that had hit him, where doctors sent him to SSKM Hospital in West Bengal capital Kokata.
Doctors said a surgery would be conducted at the earliest to save the legs from amputation.
The incident happened around 2.30pm at BE Block in Salt Lake when Aminul Haque, a private driver, was sitting on the pavement opposite to the parked car.
Police said, the man driving the car, lost control of the vehicle and rammed into the pavement straight into the man leaving him in a pool of blood.
The occupants of the car attended to the man and tried to take him to the hospital in their car, but the car’s wheels had got jammed.
They then took the man along with local residents in another car to Bidhannagar state general hospital.
Cops also reached the hospital and after speaking to the doctors, shifted him to SSKM Trauma Care centre where he was under treatment and efforts were being made to salvage the damaged legs.
