Jodhpur, Oct 23 (PTI) Timely and swift action by an army captain and his buddy saved the family of three, 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 8 am, when the family was heading towards Jaipur. As their car zoomed past a vehicle, in which army men, Captain Abhishek Choudhary and his buddy 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 — were trapped inside.

Its doors were jammed, and the family were not a

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