Driver killed after dumper rams bus, 13 injured

NEW DELHI: Thirteen passengers had been injured and a truck motive force was once killed after a dumper rammed a Delhi Transport Corporation bus barely a kilometre from Delhi Police headquarters early on Tuesday.

The bus, going from Anand Vihar to Uttam Nagar, had crossed the signal that was once on blinker mode when the truck coming from Ring Road rammed it at the left facet. The affect was once such that the bus was once tossed into the street divider grilles.



The bus passengers said that the truck motive force was once rushing and riding in a zigzag means. Police suspect that the motive force could have been trying to leave the town limits before the constraints on motion of heavy automobiles got here into effect.

The bus on path 740 was once going against ITO crossing from Laxmi Nagar. Around 3.15am, the truck unexpectedly seemed at the slip street underneath the flyover and drove into the bus. A part of the truck were given lodged into the frame of the bus. A streetlight pole on the crossing was once additionally uprooted because of the affect.

Hearing the crash, police officers from IP Estate police station around the street rushed to the spot at the side of safety guards at Vikas Minar. The fire department was once informed and the cabin of the truck had to be minimize open to tug out the motive force, Karan Singh (36), after nearly part an hour. He was once taken to Lok Nayak Hospital the place he was once declared introduced lifeless.


The passengers — Mamta Singh (45), Munni Devi (40), Chandni (22), Seema (44), Reshma Devi (25), Meera Devi (55), Kanhaiya Lal (42), Pradeep Singh (56), Sulaiman Ali (22), Rajbir Singh (34) and Pan Chinwar (38) — had been rescued during the motive force’s exit and the entrance door of the bus. They had been taken to other hospitals. Rajbir was once admitted in a significant situation. The bus motive force, Narender Singh, additionally suffered head injuries and needed to go through surgery.


DCP (central) Mandeep Singh Randhawa said that a case of causing death because of negligence and negligent riding has been registered and an inquiry initiated to ascertain the culpability.


Karan was once a resident of Himachal Pradesh and was once heading against Rama Road after offloading goods in south Delhi. Police suspect he could have lost his way and instead of riding at the flyover, he took the slip street. He could have been looking for a way get back on Ring Road. His frame has been despatched for post-mortem to find out whether he was once inebriated all over the incident.



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