I was near HerohaLLi village to drop HPN back to his home. I was driving back, had hardly covered some 100 yards, someone came in front of my Car and requested me to stop. I noticed that the person had a kid in his hand and he was crying for help. I then noticed that his entire family was around, crying. There was another small girl (must have been the kid’s sibling). All this took me by surprise. I immediately stopped the Car and asked them what happened. I could barely understand.
There were few more people walking up to us and they asked me if I could drop them off to the hospital.
The road there is narrow and few vehicles stopped behind my car almost immediately. A small crowd had gathered. On the front, I could spot a “Hoysala” police van when I was trying to find out more from these people. One police man got down and asked me to stop the Car. I said, “Boss, wait! I have halted the Car because they asked me for some help!”. I believe they just wasted more precious, irreversible moments there.
At last, everyone understood the situation. They let me, the kid’s Dad move away from that place to a nearest hospital. One more guy accompanied us and he was giving me directions to the hospital. I was totally new to that place and haven’t had a chance to explore much other than the main road that I usually take.
We reached the hospital, but found that the hospital was closed. But the kid was found to have passed away. 
I asked them whether they would like to take the kid to some other hospital. But they just said “no, he is dead now. Please drop us back home”. I did that and returned home.
The man who was holding the kid was drunk, as far as I could make out from their conversations – the guy had hit the kid once he reached home today and caused all this mess!
I can’t help but wonder why they drink as much to make lives of others a misery. I could see that the person was from a middle class family and he must be earning enough to take care of his family. But the end of the day habit now has taken the life of his son.
I felt sorry for the kid and that I couldn’t help more than that to save his life. The day ended with this very sad event. I’m still lost for words.
