Cyclist Hit By Truck Lies Unattended On Bengal's Howrah Road For 30 Minutes, Dies

Kolkata: A cyclist was hit by a lorry in Howrah, West Bengal, early this morning and lay there in pain for at least 30 minutes without any help from local people or passers by. Someone did inform the police who came and took him to a local hospital half an hour later. He was shifted to a government hospital in Kolkata later but he died late in the evening.

In the CCTV footage from JN Mukherjee Road in Howrah, you can see 55-year-old Dhiren Nayak writhing in pain in front of a shop. A man comes and peeps at him a couple of times. Cyclists, autorickshaws whiz past but don't stop to help. Slowly a crowd gathers and finally the police arrives to take him away. The accident happened around 6 am.  

According to friends and relatives who were with Mr Nayak till the end, doctors said he could have been saved if he had got medical attention earlier. Mr Nayak, who lived not far from the site of the accident, was going to work at a mill nearby when he was hit by the lorry.

A similar incident occurred in Delhi earlier this month. Some 200 people walked by the injured man but did nothing. One man took away the injured man's mobile phone.