Dubai: A Pakistani woman is battling for her life after falling out of a moving car on the busy Shaikh Zayed Road.
Heena Kashif Khan, 31, was seated next to her husband, who was driving her to work when she fell out of the vehicle. The two-seater pickup truck was travelling at around 110 km/h when the accident occurred.
“She was leaning against the passenger door and talking to me. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise that the door wasn’t locked and she, like many times in the past, wasn’t wearing a seat-belt at the time,” the woman’s husband, Kamran Hameed told XPRESS on Wednesday.
“Thankfully there was no car behind us at that moment. The police arrived within minutes and cordoned off the spot in the middle of the road where she lay barely conscious. We were driving on the third lane from left near the Al Safa Salik gate when the accident happened,” Hameed added, describing the chain of events that unfolded on the fateful May 31 morning at about 7.50am.
The woman was rushed to Rashid Hospital where she underwent emergency brain surgery. She, however, remains in critical condition and in a coma, her colleagues said.
“Her skull is cracked and she suffered serious injuries on the right side of her body. In fact, It’s so bad that we just couldn’t look at her for a second time,” said one of Khan’s co-workers at a supermarket in Karama.
She had taken up work as a cashier about a year ago when she first moved to Dubai from her native in Bahawalpur, Paksitan. Hameed is currently out on bail and faces further police investigation. A comment from the police wasn’t immediately available.
With inputs from Michael Gomes, senior sub-editor
