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A bike rider met with a horrific accident on the Container Road highway in Ernakulam, leaving him injured and lying on the road. Passing through his constituency of Paravur for scheduled events, Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan spotted the victim and immediately halted his convoy. Prioritising the victim's life over his schedule and security, the Chief Minister instructed that his pilot vehicle be deployed as an emergency ambulance. Assisting local residents at the spot, the security team shifted the injured young man into the pilot vehicle and rushed him to the hospital. A video capturing the rescue went viral, drawing praise from the public while also raising questions regarding road safety and ambulance availability.

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00:00And breaking news coming in of a horrific accident in Kerala's Arnakulam.
00:05In fact, Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satishan plays a saviour on road.
00:10Chief Minister stops convoy after spotting the accident victim.
00:14Chief Minister Satishan rescues injured young man, shifts injured to the hospital in his pilot vehicle.
00:21Chief Minister turns pilot vehicle into emergency ambulance assisting in shifting the injured to the hospital.
00:29Chief Minister comes to the rescue of accident victim, the young man who met with an accident on the container
00:35road in Arnakulam.
00:37After noticing the accident, the Chief Minister immediately stopped his vehicle, put the injured man in the pilot vehicle and
00:43took him to the hospital.
00:45Shibhi is joining me on this story.
00:46Shibhi, what can you tell us about this accident and the Chief Minister's role in rescuing the victim?
00:54Well, the accident is placed on the container road in Arnakulam and on the highway.
00:59In fact, when the Chief Minister's vehicle was passing, this man was lying on the road soaked in blood.
01:05And that's when the Chief Minister got out of his car and said that, you know, he needs to be
01:09shifted very quickly.
01:10And his pilot vehicle was used to ship the man to the hospital.
01:14The Chief Minister can be heard saying in the video that, I can wait, I can go later.
01:18But, you know, saving this man's life is more important.
01:20So, please shift him as soon as possible, is what the Chief Minister said.
01:25We're learning that he was shifted to the hospital immediately.
01:28And that video has now gone viral with the Chief Minister receiving, you know, heavy praise from the public saying
01:34that this is how the leaders should behave.
01:36You know, a person's life is more important than anybody's security or anybody's, you know, anybody's security.
01:43So, in that case, the act of the Chief Minister has been receiving heavy praise from all corners of the
01:49public at this point.
01:50So, Shibhi, you know, the Chief Minister's action is very, very commendable that somebody was on the road.
01:57He took, he made sure that the person is taken to the hospital.
02:00But do we know what happened really on that road?
02:03How did that accident happen?
02:05Where was this convoy going when the accident was spotted?
02:11Well, you know, Chief Minister's constituency is Paramur and Rathlam.
02:16He was in the district to attend some events.
02:18And we're learning that this man was travelling in a bike and he met with an accident.
02:23And the people, the locals who saw the accident were trying to shift him.
02:27And that's when the Chief Minister's convoy was passing by.
02:30Since the Chief Minister's convoy was passing by, it was not, the road was cleared also for it.
02:35And that's when the Chief Minister himself interfered to shift him, to help the locals shift him to the hospital
02:41using his pilot weapon.
02:44Shibhimol there, getting us that video that has gone viral.
02:48As the Chief Minister uses his own pilot vehicle.
02:50But the question really is, how safe are the roads?
02:53And why was there no ambulance available to take this man?
02:56Why did the Chief Minister's security vehicle need to take him?
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