Four students injured as school van turns turtle

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Four students of St Xavier were injured while three others escaped unhurt after a school van turned upside down after hitting a road divider at Awadhpuri under Ayodhya Nagar police station area on Friday.

According to the police, school van bearing registration number MP04-J-7447 carrying seven students of St Xavier Senior Secondary School, Barkheda turned turtle after the driver lost control and hit a road divider at around 7 in the morning.

A complaint was lodged by an eye witness Santosh Patil who claimed that the school van turned turtle after it hit a road divider.

SHO of Govindpura police station RK Mavliya said that accident took place while the driver of the school van rammed the van into the road divider in a bid to save person crossing the road. The students and driver escaped with minor injuries. Students were taken by the guardians to private hospital.

There were seven students in the van at the time of the incident. The incident took place when the school van was carrying students to school in the morning.

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