India, July 21 -- A woman riding a scooter narrowly escaped death on Friday evening, after the vehicle skidded on oil spilled on the Mulshi road near Shell petrol pump in Bhukum. Identified by police only as Vrushali from Shindewadi, she was returning home from work around 7pm when she lost control of her scooter after it skidded on the oil-covered stretch.

She fell down and as she was trying to get up, a tempo coming from Pune and heading toward Pirangut ran over her, and her head was stuck in a wheel.

Unaware of what had happened, the tempo driver kept going, dragging Vrushali for nearly 200-300 feet with her head trapped under the rear wheel.

When villagers on the road screamed for the tempo to stop, the driver stopped, realising so...