The global cricketing fraternity joined hands to wish India wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant well after his unfortunate involvement in a car crash this morning. Although Pant suffered multiple injuries after his car caught fire in a horrifying consequence of the accident, he was fortunate enough to survive any life-threatening injury.
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Pant, who dozed off while driving alone when the car crashed into the divider, didn’t cause any kind of harm to any other vehicle or individual. The accident happened while the 25-year old player was returning from New Delhi to his home in Roorkee.
Having received initial medical treatment from a local hospital, Pant was shifted to Max Hospital, Dehradun, for further treatment. In addition to the cricketing fraternity, numerous Indian politician also wished Pant a speedy and optimum recovery ensuring the best of treatments for him.
Mercedes AMG GLE Coupe price in India
Pant was believed to be driving a BMW at the time of the accident at first. The narrative was fueled by an official mentioning BMW as the car involved in the accident. However, contrary to reports doing the rounds in the morning, Pant was driving a Mercedes-Benz AMG GLE Coupe.
According to the official website of Mercedes, the price of this car starts from INR 1.63 crore in India. The GLE variant (non-Coupe), on the other hand, starts from INR 88 lakh.
Pant, who owns a variety of cars like any other A-list Indian cricketer, was driving one of the most safest cars at the time of the accident according to Overdrive editor Bertrand D’Souza.
“This is a state-of-the-art car. It has got some of the best safety features across any other segment. It has a safety feature called the ‘Attention Assist’ which effectively warns the driver if it detects that the person sitting in the driver’s seat is drowsy [or] eyes are shutting down. It has got cameras that identify these signs but it’s a general tendency [among people] to ignore these safety warnings and continue driving,” D’Souza told NDTV explaining the same in detail.
In the 327-second video, D’Souza opined about not finding any fault in the car with respect to its safety saying that the nature of the accident was so serious involving collisions with armco barriers and railings that “nothing that could have prevented” the vehicle from catching fire.
