chennai a 28yearold man died when he lost control of his scooter and crashed into a median while trying to save his newly adopted pet dog from falling off the vehicle near ambattur on saturday nightpolice said autorickshaw driver k deepan had kept his puppy which he was taking home for his two children on the floorboards in front of him when he was riding on the red hills road near kallikuppam he noticed the puppy was slipping off the vehicledeepan bent down and scooped up the puppy but lost control of his twowheeler which rammed into the road median police said quoting onlookers the puppy ran away from the scene while people gathered to help deepan he was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him deadpolice said deepan a resident of kavangarai near ambattur is survived by his wife bhavani 24 and two children he had visited a relative at nearby oragadam where he spotted the puppy he decided to take it home as his children were fond of dogs red hills traffic investigation wing have registered a case of selffall and further probe is on