Mob Mentality- Nitin Naresh

Today I was travelling by bus from my home to some place approx 30 km. The bus went on highway and I was about to get down. I was just crossing the road when I saw that a speeding honda city car hit a girl riding the scooty and crossing the road in the middle of the highway. The girl felt down and she started bleeding heavily. She was hit by the car so badly that she become unconcious and was bleeding heavily from head and neck.

The driver out of the humanity came running to see the girl and went to pick the girl and take her to hospital in the car. I was just helping the guy to pick the girl but suddenly some people out of public came near to us and started beating the man, who was driving the car. I was seeing all this drama of the public. They were very much interested to beat the car driver but did not bother that in all  this nonsense they were unnecessarily making delay for the treatment of the girl. No one bothered for the bleeding and unconcisous girl.

Suddenly I took a iron rod from a near by place and started beating some people of the public. I know this was wrong but at that time this was the only way to stop them. I shouted on them that they were so idiotic that their main priority was not to beat the man, but to take the girl to hospital.

I told them that, ” The man could have run after accident, but instead he came to help her. Is this not enough. What we would have done, if he might have run? “

Then I took the girl along with the help of this man to the hospital. There the doctor told that it is too late to bring, as she already lost so much blood. But they will still try for it and asked for the blood. All the people who were almost ready to kill the man over the accident spot denied to give the blood and slowly and slowly tried to escape

But this guy who made the accident asked the doctor to take his blood. All this was running in front of my eyes as a movie. The doctor told the man that he can’t give the blood, as he himself was so much injured due to the public hitting. But he said it did not matter. His main aim was to save the girl’s life at that time and urged doctor to take blood. I was also ready to give blood but my blood group was different.

I called the girl’s family and told them every thing.  When they came, we left. The man who hit the girl gave 10,000/- Rs.  to the family for the expenses and told that right then he was in hurry and would come back in the evening to see the girl. He also asked me if he can drop me in the way. So I got ready.

On the way he told me that he was driving fast, as his wife was in hospital and was about to deliver the first baby and her case was complicated.

I thought why people hit this man for what mistake. He was not driving under the effect of alcohol, he was not driving rash. He was not talking on phone while driving. Instead it was the girl’s mistake, as she tried to cross the road from wrong side and that too on a highway.

What could have happened and what we could have done, if he had run away, after hitting the girl. The situation might have got worse. She may even have died. With all the problems and tensions due to the complications over the delivery of the first child and seeing the wife’s condition, he could have simply escaped. But he gave the best of the time and energy till the family of the girl arrived.

I went to the hospital where his wife was admitted and came to know that his wife has successfully delivered a healtly baby boy. I felt, as if god has blessed him just because he helped some one in need instead of his own urgency. But are we all so much blessed by god.

You know in every human we have a soft heart. We all feel sad when we make mistakes,  hit some one or do something bad. We all have a sense of humanity inside us. Still many people run from the accident spot. Not because they are devils, but because of the fear of stupidity of the public; who do not have any relation to the injured or the accident, but try to indulge themselves without any reason in such things and interfere in between.

More than 90 hit and run cases happen just because people fear that public might beat them to death after the accident. They really want to help the accident victim but can’t help them and rather run away. Due to such stupidity of the mob, many precious lives are lost.

So friends! I request you all to please help the accident victim and dont over react over the people who make accident. Accidents happen by mistake and not intentionally. That is why they are called accidents. So try to keep yourself calm and help people so that we may be able to reduce hit and run cases and people help the victims of accident.