They breed anger and derision; they cause annoyance, discomfort, and even expensive repairs, but India's famous potholes actually saved a life on Friday.

The ‘late' Darshan Singh Brar was being transported to the Indian version of a wake after his untimely death from a chest infection at the age of 80.

Family, relatives, and friends had already gathered for a banquet and cremation, when the ambulance he was being caried in received a nasty jolt from a pothole on the roads in Nising, in far-Northern India' Haryana state.

It was then that Mr. Brar's grandson who was onboard the ambulance at the time noticed his hand moving. Checking his pulse and finding-to his great shock-there was one, he notified the driver to immediately turn toward the nearest hospital.

He was declared alive and savable, and was referred to the Rawal Hospital in the city of Karnal.

"It is a miracle. Now we are hoping that my grandfather recovers soon," said Balwan Singh, another of Mr. Brar's grandsons. "Everyone who had gathered to mourn his death congratulated us, and we requested them to have the food we had arranged. It is God's grace that he is now breathing and we are hoping he will get better."

A valued and respected member of his local community in Nising, NDTV news reports that "an entire colony" was named in his honor.

He had been feeling very ill and was taken to the hospital in Nising and put on a ventilator. After four days, his heartbeat stopped. He was taken off the ventilator and declared dead.

Doctors at Rawal Hospital said that the grandfather is breathing without the aid of a ventilator and his heartbeat has normalized. They can't say for certain why the other hospital declared him dead, but speculated it may have been a technical error.

The next time you are planning to go to town hall or the council about the potholes on your street, consider the story of Darshan Singh Brar.

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