The truck which was involved in the mishap.
OLD GOA
A 29-year-old truck driver from MP was rescued by firefighters after being trapped inside the truck cabin for over two hours, when his vehicle rammed against a cement mixer from the rear.
According to sources, the mishap occurred along the Merces-Bambolim road on Saturday morning when Ramniwas Singh, travelling towards Bambolim, rammed his truck against the cement mixer, which apparently had broken down.
Upon impact, the driver got trapped inside the cabin with injuries to his legs.
Panaji fire station sources informed that they got a call at around 11 am and within 10 minutes, the firemen reached the site and began the rescue operation.
“We used our crane as well as the police crane and started the rescue operation but it proved to be a difficult task. Another team of firemen also reached at the spot and joined the operation. We used hydraulics tools and started cutting the cabin bit by bit. Finally after a mammoth operation of over two hours, the driver was freed from the vehicle and handed over to the 108 ambulance staff,” the sources stated.
The sources also informed that as the rescue operation was underway, the 108 ambulance staff provided oxygen and IV fluids to the driver.
Later, the injured driver was shifted to the GMC hospital for treatment.
Firemen from Panaji headquarters namely sub officer S N Pednekar, driver operator Sudesh Betikar and firefighters Suresh Gaonkar, Baburao Araundekar and Alvares Mascarenhas and firemen from Panaji fire station namely hawaldar Ashok Missal, driver operator P V Kambli and firefighters V S Haldankr and M Mayenkar were among the fire personnel who participated in the rescue operation.
Old Goa PS hawaldar Ajinkya Gawde is conducting further investigations in the incident.
