It was around 2.30 am. DCP (Traffic) Shashank Jaiswal was on his way to meet his mother when he saw an overturned car near Subroto Park, Dhaula Kuan. As he asked his driver to pull over near the accident site, he found a man and a woman trapped in the car that had overturned on its left side, cutting off access to both doors.
What followed was Jaiswal, his team and some passersby, saving the lives of the couple – an Army subedar and his wife, an Air Force officer.
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“On the other side of the car, the doors were jammed, and the couple couldn’t open them from inside…,” Jaiswal said, adding that he immediately called the PCR.
Jaiswal, his team, and the bystanders smashed the car windows and pulled the couple out. “Fortunately, they didn’t suffer any major injuries,” the DCP said.
The couple were on their way to their residence in Delhi Cantonment. “They were trying to avoid a collision with a truck when their car swerved and overturned,” Jaiswal said.
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He added that fuel was leaking from the couple’s car. “The situation could have become dangerous if the vehicle had caught fire,” Jaiswal said.
This isn’t the first time that Jaiswal has come to the rescue of accident victims. On September 2, he spotted a crowd near Mahipalpur bypass in South Delhi. A man injured in a motorcycle accident was lying unconscious and bleeding heavily.
Jaiswal had called an autorickshaw and rushed Rangpuri resident Anil Kumar to the hospital. Kumar had survived.
Jaiswal credited the autorickshaw driver, Deepak Pal, and traffic constables Jasbir and Shailesh, for saving Kumar’s life.
DCP (Traffic) Shashank Jaiswal 
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