Mumbai: A homemaker waiting on the steps of a medical dispensary in Dahisar for her son’s school bus to arrive was crushed on Tuesday by a tempo whose brakes allegedly failed. She succumbed a day later in hospital. The tempo driver fled but was later arrested.Shilpa Pokharkar was waiting, along with sister Ashwani, for her eight-year-old son’s bus to arrive at Rawalpada in Dahisar around 6.40pm. She sat on the steps of a medical dispensary that was shut and Ashwini stood on the other side of the road. While Ashwini was walking towards Pokharkar, a tempo came up from behind her and rammed into the dispensary’s shutter. Pokharkar was crushed between the tempo and the shutter. Ashwini raised an alarm. The tempo driver panicked and fled. Passersby gathered and moved the tempo aside. Pokharkar was seriously injured from the waist down. She was rushed to Shatabdi Hospital in a vehicle. Police tracked the tempo driver down the same day and arrested him on charges of negligence and rash driving.Pokharkar’s husband, Baliram Pokharkar, works as a BEST driver. TNN
