Mumbai woman scooterist on way to file case hits pothole outside police station, injure

MUMBAI: A 35-year-old woman heading to Tardeo police station on her scooter to file a complaint against her husband on Tuesday night, hit a pothole outside the police station, fell on the road and sustained multiple head injuries. She was not wearing a helmet.
Even as the woman is recuperating in hospital, the public works department filled the pothole within 24 hours, said the Tardeo police.
The woman, a Tardeo resident and a mother of two, had a tiff with her businessman husband and left home on her scooter to lodge a police complaint.“Around 11.45pm, when she approached the police station road, she hit a pothole and lost control of her scooter. She fell on her head,” said a police officer. A passerby informed the police about the accident outside their premises. “By then her husband too reached the police station. He accompanied us as we took her to Nair Hospital,” said senior inspector Sanjay Surve. She was shifted to the ICU at Bhatia hospital at 7.30am on Wednesday.
“We don’t know what she wanted to complain about as we have not spoken to her yet,” added Surve. “The doctors have told us that she is not in a condition to give a statement.”
Medical superintendent Dr Sachin Gadkari said her condition was stable, but she will be kept under observation in the ICU. “She has a haematoma (swelling in the brain), contusion and a small fracture in the skull. She is clinically stable, conscious and responding to commands,” he said. She is unlikely to need any surgical intervention. “The neurosurgeon will take a call on whether to move her out of the ICU,” Dr Gadkari said.
The police have not registered any case yet. “We will first talk to her and establish what exactly happened and then decide the course of legal action and against whom should we register a case,” said the officer.
(Inputs by Sumitra Deb Roy)