Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jul 14: After a private bus that was rushing towards Ullal from the main bus shelter at Thokkottu hit another service bus that was moving towards Thokkkottu from B C Road, front portions of both the buses suffered damages. Two passengers were injured, and luckily there were no casualties.

It is learnt that the bus that was moving to Ullal through Thokkottu was at high speed when it came out of the main bus shelter at Thokkottu. It hit a private service bus coming from the direction of B C Road, partly damaging its front portion. Two passengers of the bus bound for Ullal, identified as Chaitanya (13), a seventh standard student, and Rihana (45), suffered injuries. Both were admitted into a private hospital at Thokkottu.

This area has been witnessing acute competition among the private buses, which are driven at breakneck speed by drivers, who fail to control the vehicles at critical moments. It is said that people had come together and beaten up a bus driver and conductor at Mastikatte in Ullal for over speeding a week ago. Several also question the propriety of the transport department in issuing express bus licences to Ullal, Konaje etc which are only a few kilometres away from the city.