As many as 21 persons, including 19 workers of the Bhushan plant here were injured, three of them seriously, when the company’s bus overturned after colliding with a truck on the BTM bypass road here on Friday. The drivers of the bus and the truck were injured and referred to the VSS Medical College and Hospital at Burla after the mishap.
The accident occurred at about 1.30 pm at the State Highway-10 near BTM bypass when the Bhushan bus, which was on its way from Jharsuguda to Thelkoli of Sambalpur district with nearly 45 passengers on board, collided with the truck, which was trying to overtake it from the left side. Following the collision, the bus driver lost control over the vehicle and it overturned, said an injured Mahesh Muli. The Jharsuguda town police registered a case of hit-and-run against the truck driver on a complaint of the bus driver.