In a tragic mishap, a driver of a car was burnt alive as his vehicle was engulfed in a fire after colliding with a bus at Kantapalli on the Jharsuguda-Brajarajnagar road on Thursday evening. According to information, the car and the bus collided head-on after which the car caught a fire and the bus skidded off the road. However, all the passengers had a miraculous escape. The driver could not come out and was charred to death. His identity was yet to be ascertained.