India, Aug. 9 -- Chhaya Purab, 49, a resident of Madhukar Nagar in Saphale, Palghar, would have probably been alive had it not been for a four-hour traffic jam on the NH-48. "We were taking her to Hinduja Hospital in Mahim but didn't make it beyond Mira Road," said her husband, Kaushik, 50. Chhaya was supervising road cleaning work near her home on July 31, when a tree fell on her, fracturing her ribs, shoulder and skull. Since there was no trauma centre in Palghar, she was being taken to Hinduja Hospital in Mahim. The ambulance left Saphale at 3pm. "The estimated time to reach the hospital in Mahim was about two and a half hours. However, the ambulance was stuck near Manor and reached Virar around 6.00pm. We reached Mira Road at 7.00pm and I was shocked at the gridlock on both carriageways. People were driving on the wrong side of the road, as they were unable to move on the south-bound carriageway," recalled Kaushik. The doctors in Palghar said the anesthesia they had administered Chhaya would wear off in four hours - a little longer than it should have taken to reach Hinduja Hospital. But the ambulance had barely reached Virar when Chhaya started screaming in pain. "I called my son so that she could feel better but she begged me not to. I had to watch her suffer for four hours," said Kaushik. Since her condition was rapidly worsening, they decided to drive to Orbit Hospital in Mira Road, where doctors declared Chhaya dead before admission. The doctors said she could have been saved had she arrived at the hospital just half an hour earlier....