Gopinath Munde should have worn seat belt: Harsh Vardhan

The blood vessels carrying blood supply to the brain stem (which is the seat of respiratory and cardiac centre) got disrupted and this became a cause for immediate cardiac and respiratory arrest. Besides, the liver was ruptured which caused profuse loss of blood, informed Vardhan.  

“I feel numbed by the realisation that the nation has lost such a valuable mass leader and able minister with a proven track record in Maharashtra.

“I now realise the trauma of countless others whose near ones died in car crashes only because they had overlooked the importance of the seat belt,” he stated.  Vardhan further gave instances of some of the well known accidents in the past due to this fatal negligence.  

One such accident, he said, was that of Princess Diana of Britain in August 1997 when her speeding car crashed against a pillar of an underground pass in Paris.  

Later it was confirmed that out of the four inmates of the ill-fated car, the lone survivor, bodyguard Trevor Rees Jones, owed his escape to the fact that he wore a seat belt whereas the others -Princess Diana, her finance Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul - had all neglected wearing it, he stated.