An sexagenarian woman was killed and eight other persons, including students, received injuries when a private school bus and an SUV collided head-on in Haryana’s Gurugram on Saturday, police said. The Suraj School’s bus and the Scorpio vehicle collided on the Gurugram-Pataudi road. According to a police official, a 65-year-old woman, identified as Kailash Devi who was travelling in the ill-fated SUV, died on the spot.
Six people in the car were injured, some critically, and they were admitted to the Rockland Hospital in Manesar. Two students in the bus were also injured, police said.
Those travelling in the SUV were coming from Mahendergarh district of Haryana and were heading towards Sheetla Mata temple in Gurugram. A case of rash and negligent driving causing death has been registered at Farrukhnagar Police Station and investigation has been taken, the official added.