{"id":10893,"date":"2020-10-20T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=10893"},"modified":"2020-10-20T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:53:56","slug":"mumbai-best-bus-driver-suffers-heart-attack-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=10893","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai: BEST bus driver suffers heart attack while driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em> <\/em><strong>hits traffic signal post<\/strong> \ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>City Bell Live \u0964 Janhavi Patil \u0964 Mumbai \u0964<\/strong> \ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A single-decker bus of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking had hurled over a traffic signal post on Tuesday morning after the driver suffered a heart attack while driving.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bus was travelling on route number 381 (Ghatkopar east to Tata power station, Chembur) and the incident took place around 10:45 am at Vasant Park, near Chembur station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources in BEST, the driver, identified as Haridas Patil, was having chest pains while driving. He suddenly lost control of the bus, after suffering a heart attack and the bus hit a traffic signal post, damaging a small vegetable shop on the footpath.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There were no severe injuries and only nine passengers were present inside the bus,&#8221; said an official.<br>One of the passengers was a police personnel and the driver was rushed to the local Rajawadi hospital in a police vehicle.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Balasaheb Zodage, assistant public relations officer, BEST informed that the condition of the patient is stable and he is undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20200928-WA0014-33-1002x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20200928-WA0014-33-1002x1024.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20200928-WA0014-33-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20200928-WA0014-33-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20200928-WA0014-33.jpg 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hits traffic signal post \ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37 City Bell Live \u0964 Janhavi Patil \u0964 Mumbai \u0964 \ud83d\udd36\ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36 A single-decker bus of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201020-WA0022.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}