Pothole costs 74-yr-old Rs 2 lakh, 3 fractures

Elderly man fell in pothole with his bike cracked both his legs and an already damaged hip ironically his daughter had also met with an accident due to a crater on the road eight days ago in Ambernath There are bad roads and then there are Mumbai roads which can be rightly said to have the distinction of being bonebreaking now in addition to being backbreakingAsk Ambernath resident Ramdas Wani who knows the lethal difference only too well now The pothole that caused Ramdas Wani to trip and injure himselfu00a0He is being nursed by his daughter Sunita The 74yearold tripped on a pothole while on his bike last Saturday The fallout was excruciating fractures on both his legs as well as on his right hip which had already undergone a replacement surgery eight years agoWani said On Saturday afternoon I was coming back home on my Scooty from the bank At a junction I found myself surrounded by vehicles on either side and to my front All of a sudden the bike in front of me stopped forcing me to brake hard over a big pothole As I fell my bike fell on my legsWani will now have to undergo three surgeries costing him close to Rs 2 lakh A rod has been inserted in his right leg for which he has paid Rs 60000 already And though his hip requires treatment again doctors are concerned about redoing the surgery owing to his advanced ageIt is horrible I cannot bear the pain Wani saidDr Mukesh Chauhan of Prabha hospital where Wani is currently admitted said Wani has fractured both his legs One has been treated His hip is causing him immense pain and we will have to check that too He is likely to undergo two more operations which will cost himu00a0 well over Rs 1 lakhDaughter tooIronically Wanis daughter Sunita has also been a victim of atrocious potholes A week ago she was riding on a bike in Ambernath when the vehicle tripped on a potholeSunita said I was the first victim of potholes in my family My friend and I were on the bike when she spotted a giant pothole She veered to the right to avoid it but a speeding biker behind us collided with our bikeBecause of the momentum we both got dragged along with him for some distance We were all injuredShe added The councillors should think of repairing the roads rather than celebrating festivalsDr Chauhan further said I work with two other hospitals Swami Sawanand and Century Rayon where every week I get at least four cases of accidents caused by potholesRajesh Kanade chief officer Ambernath Municipal Council was unavailable for comment despite repeated attempts to get in touch with him