32-year-old executive driving to hospital with chest pain suffers heart attack, kills passerby in Navi Mumbai

NAVI MUMBAI: A 32-year-old man, driving to hospital in Kalamboli after experiencing chest pain, suffered a heart attack and lost control at a busy intersection during the morning peak hours, ramming into two parked cars and a pedestrian, killing him. His wife, who was in the car, hailed a rickshaw and rushed him to hospital, where his life was saved by CPR and immediate surgery. Since he is still in hospital, police have not yet informed his family he has been booked for causing death by rash and negligence act not amounting to culpable homicide.Aniket Nalawade, an executive with a leading business conglomerate, felt chest pain early on Monday and drove with his wife to his family doctor near his house in Taloja Phase II. The doctor ran an ECG and found it "abnormal with symptoms of mild cardiac arrest" and asked him to get admitted in a hospital, about 3.5km away.The couple set off in their white mini SUV to the hospital when Nalawade suffered the heart attack and passed out near the busy Kalamboli Circle around 10.30am. The car veered off and hit the two cars and a man walking by. By the time the car came to a halt, cops from the nearby traffic police chowki reached.They helped his wife put Nalawade, who sustained an injury to the left eye, in an autorickshaw with the pedestrian and rushed them to White Lotus hospital.The pedestrian was identified as Om Tambe (20), a housekeeping employee of the same hospital. Nalawade was rushed to the emergency dept, where doctors tried to revive him with CPR. After a CT scan, he was taken for angioplasty under senior cardiologist Anuj Sathe and shifted to the ICU.Dr Rahul Peddawad said Nalawade’s revival as “miraculous”.Senior police inspector Rajendra Kote said that Nalwade was booked on Monday, but as he was in ICU, they waited.