Kundapur: Speeding bus hits another bus, tree - One dead, 12 injured

Silvester D'Souza
Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur

Kundapur, May 6: A speeding bus carrying several passengers hit another bus on Koteshwar-Halady road here on Monday May 6, killing one passenger and injuring 12 others.

The bus, which was at a high speed, hit another bus, and then rammed into a roadside tree, before falling.

Passenger Girish (30) who was critically injured, passed away in a hospital.

Another 12 persons sustained injured, among whom two are said to be serious.

The bus, belonging to Manjunath Motors, was carrying passengers from Kundapur to Jaddinagadde, Amasbail. The accident occured after it dropped a few passengers at Hombadi bus stop and moved a little further. At about 300 metres from the bus stop, it rammed into the side of another bus, belonging to Hanuman Motors, plying from Shimoga to Kundapur.

The impact of the accident was such that bus swerved off the side of the road, hitting a tree and then falling over.

As soon as the accident occured, locals Ganesh Achar, Ullas, Udesh and Udaya Poojary rushed to the spot with their own vehicles and took the injured to the hospital.

Among the 12 injured were husband and young child of a pregnant woman, and a girl student who was returning after answering her exam. Two persons who were seriously injured were shifted to Manipal hospital.

The driver of Hanuman Motors bus, on sensing the recklessness of the other driver who had moved completely to the wrong side, showed exemplary presence of mind by moving to the side and lowering his bus into a gutter. After the danger had passed, he reversed the bus out safely, thus keeping the passengers from sustaining any harm. The locals praised him for his action.