Driver suffers heart attack, but save passengers

Chennai | Tuesday | 12th February, 2019

Summary:

CHENNAI: Swooning after a heart attack, a 51-year-old bus driver kept calm, pulled over and stopped the vehicle to keep at least 50 passengers from harm, before he died in Maduravoyal on Thursday.Sarvesvaran, an MTC driver, worked on the Koyambedu-Kancheepuram route . The doctors said the driver died of a massive heart attack.The Maduravoyal police arrived and informed Sarvesvaran's family about the death. “As the vehicle was passing through Maduravoyal, Sarvesvaran par ked the bus on the side of the road and told the conductor and passengers that he was not feeling well. As the bus approached Maduravoyal market at 8.30am, he appeared to be in distress and halted on the side of the road, witnesses told police. They alerted doctors in the hospital who ran to his side but by then it was too late..