Timely and swift action by two Army officials saved a family, including a toddler, who got stuck inside their car after it fell into a roadside ditch on the Jodhpur-Jaipur highway on Thursday.

The accident occurred on the highway near Kaparda in Jodhpur at about 8am, when the family was heading towards Jaipur. As their car zoomed past a vehicle — in which Army men, Captain Abhishek Choudhary and Naik Sri Ram, were travelling — one of its tyres burst. Subsequently, the car lost control, flipped, and fell into a roadside ditch.

The Army officer said they stopped their vehicle and rushed to the spot to help the car’s occupants — a man, his wife and their toddler son — who were trapped inside.

The car's doors were jammed, and the family was unable to open them, said Choudhary.

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