Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
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25-year-old motorcycle rider who was riding his bike without helmet had a miraculous escape in a freak accident caused by a stray bull which unexpectedly charged at him and threw him under an moving truck in Bengaluru on Friday.
The video recorded from the CCTV near the scene of the accident went viral of social media caused lot of concerns expressed by the netizens .
The incident occurred near the Mahalakshmi Layout Swimming Pool Junction,according to a social media user.
The bull,dressed up for performances,is seen walking with a woman who is escorting it,when it pounces on a biker unexpectedly,leaving passers-by shocked.
The impact of the bull’s hit threw the man under the wheels of a truck coming from the opposite direction, but the wheels stopped only a couple feet short of the man’s head,thanks to driver’s presence of mind.
A woman was escorting the bull when in an unexplainable change in mood,the bull charged at a person in a two wheeler driving in the opposite direction.
It continued running in a random fashion after having collided with the biker.
The impact of the collision flung the bike driver near the wheels of a Canter Truck,”said a user on micro-blogging site ‘X’,previously twitter,while sharing the CCTV footage of the incident.
The Canter Truck driver showed a great level of spatial awareness and applied the brakes hence saving the life of the person on the bike.
following the incident,the city traffic police have been instructed to ensure that no stray animals disturbing the traffic.
