We do not know how to console the members of the bereaved family for whom it will not be easy to come to terms with the way the doctor was killed -- even with the passage of time. The driver of the vehicle who dragged him along the road for quite some time could not, for reasons best known to him, show due concern for human life. The most tragic part of the accident obviously is that the driver didn't stop the car when the gentleman whose leg got stuck with its bumper cried out in pain as the former sped away.

The doctor has, however, left a message for society as a whole which is that people have to pay a heavy price when there is no traffic discipline. It is also a matter of great worry that whenever an accident takes place, a mob would wreak wrath on the driver or the vehicle. Even other vehicles may be bashed. The fear psychosis could lead a driver into making frantic attempt to flee the place. Perhaps if the owner of the car was with the driver he might have acted somewhat conscientiously. All of this cannot lessen the enormity of his barbaric behaviour, but we have to address the broader issue of societal and law and order failures. So, matters must improve vastly on the roads; police must show agility in a spokes-of-a-wheel traffic tangle; the drivers should be trained to cope with all kinds of situation; and people shouldn't take law into their own hands.

Even though there is no way to compensate for the loss of life, we believe the government should consider how it can help the family which has been ruined by a most brutal and gory end of a bright life. It's a kind of martyrdom with a message to heed.