As many as five school students and a teacher sustained injuries when a school bus turned turtle after reportedly being hit by a truck at Radisson Square here on Thursday morning. In the accident, which occurred at 7 am, five students, namely, Siddhant, Himanshu, Aniruddh, Ambar and Swalok and a school teacher, Kaviita, sustained injuries.
The injured were immediately extricated from the bus (MP09-FA-0848) by the local people with help of a RTO squad and shifted to Bhandari hospital where their condition was stated to be out of danger till filing this report.The local people had to take out the students from the emergency door of the bus. Many of the students had got panicky and appeared to be shell-shocked. On account of the mishap, traffic movement in the locality remained disrupted for sometime before the school bus was shifted from the spot by a crane with the help of the RTO flying squad.
Witnesses claimed that the incident was caused due to lapses on the part of the bus driver as he was driving recklessly and as such it was not hit by the truck as was being claimed by the bus driver. later, the school bus driver was taken into custody.