“A cropped traffic moment skips the part where that ambulance was allowed through.”
“Two ambulances, including a medical emergency, were made to wait while PM Modi’s VIP convoy passed, unlike purportedly staged videos showing ambulances receiving priority.”
The footage can show an ambulance temporarily caught behind the roadshow crowd, and the broader point that ambulances should receive priority is sound.
The post presents the temporary stoppage as proof that the convoy passed while denying an emergency ambulance priority. Longer footage, vehicle matching, and the driver’s account identify the waiting and passing ambulance as the same vehicle; it was allowed through the convoy.
Material. Leaving out that the ambulance was subsequently cleared through reverses the apparent meaning of the clip from denied priority to an ambulance initially delayed amid congestion but then given passage.
Why Clear says this
Newschecker matched the ambulance’s number plate and rear markings across the short and longer videos, contacted its owner, and reported the driver’s account that he transported a critically ill child through the convoy to Siliguri Medical College. Separate contemporaneous reporting also showed the convoy making way for an ambulance during the April 11, 2026 Siliguri roadshow.
Evidence
- A longer version of the viral footage shows the apparently stuck ambulance moving forward through the crowd.
- The ambulance in the waiting clip matches the ambulance later passing through the convoy by visible vehicle details.
- The ambulance owner and driver said it carried a sick child and was cleared through the convoy to the hospital.
- This evidence does not establish that there was no initial delay; it contradicts the claim that the ambulance was simply held while the convoy passed.