A 35 year-old lady on Tuesday died after a rashly driven Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) bus rammed her two-wheeler at the dividing road of Sector 10-16.
Police said the victim Sharmila Gupta was going to Sector-17 after she had lunch with her colleagues. The CTU bus hit her Activa Scooter near Sector-16 and left her badly injured on the spot.
The information was given to police by one of her colleagues, who rushed her to Government Multi Specialty Hospital in Sector-16 (GMSH), where doctors declared her brought dead.
Sharmila Gupta, a resident of Naya Gaon worked at Red Cross as a volunteer for a long time. The accused bus driver Balbir Singh was arrested by police from the spot.
Sharmila was the only working person in her family. Her husband also died in a road accident at Manimajra, few months ago.
Three people in last one year have died after CTU buses hit them.
Anupama Sarkar, a 16-year-old school student died after her leg got crushed under the wheels of a CTU bus in Sector 18 on July 17.
Followed by Anupama, Pooja, a class 10 student on August 17, too lost her life when she was ran over by CTU bus at Attawa.
Another person — Ram Bahadur, 54-year-old beldar was injured on account of a similar accident with CTU bus near the Sector-16 stadium and later died, on September 17, 2012.