The ongoing construction work on the Bangalore-Chennai highway, an extension of the NH-4, makes it especially accident-prone. "Her father, however, escaped with minor injuries," he added. Rekha's sister suffered a fracture while her mother injured her eye.
The impact of the collision threw her across the bus, into the driver's cabin,'' a police official said. "The girl was sitting on her mother's lap and swinging on the bus railing before the mishap occurred. Ten-year-old Rekha was returning to her house in Chamrajnagar after visiting Tirupathi with her parents, sister and five other relatives.
KSRTC bus driver Nagaraj, who lost his right hand, has been admitted to the Jalappa Hospital,'' said Surya Prakash, Sub-Inspector, Mulabagilu. "Since it was Monday morning, the KSRTC bus was overloaded with people returning from Tirupathi. While some of the patients lost their limbs to the accident, others suffered limb fractures. The deceased have been identified as 38-year-old Pankaja (a polytechnic college teacher from Mysore wife of Shivaraj), 42-year-old Nagaraj (a teacher from Holenarsipura, Hassan son of Swamygowda), 10-year-old Rekha, (a native of Doddarajanur, Erode, Tamil Nadu daughter of Bangaranayaka), 55-year-old Lakshmaiah (Volvo bus driver, a native of Tavarekere, Bangalore), 26-year-old Sachin Rao (L&T engineer, a native of Suratkal, Mangalore son of Sadananda Rao), 28-year-old Vishnu Priya (a native of Chennai, resident of RT Nagar, Bangalore wife of Dr Navin Kumar), 23-year-old Jaganath Sai (software engineer, a native of Chennai son of Janumaja Sai), 23-year-old Asha Ojar (software engineer, a native of Tumkur town daughter of D P Ojar), 28-year-old Amit Kumar Sinha (software engineer, a native of Ashoknagar, Chennai son of Ajay Kumar Sinha) and 23-year-old Balaji (a resident of Mahadevapura, Bangalore son of Prabhakar Shastry).Īs many as 25 seriously-injured passengers were admitted to the R L Jalappa Medical College Hospital in Kolar while some others underwent treatment at hospitals in Bangalore. Though the other passengers in the KSRTC bus had a narrow escape, a 10-year-old girl died on the spot, they added. But the KSRTC driver drove right into the vehicle's side, killing the Volvo driver and eight other passengers," they said. "The Volvo driver slowed down when he saw the speeding KSRTC bus come from the opposite direction he even swerved to the extreme left to avoid a head-on collision.
Kolar police said the bus rammed into the right side of the Volvo, killing most of the people sitting on that side.
The Volvo bus carrying 40 passengers was travelling from Bangalore to Chennai, while the other bus was coming to Bangalore from Tirupathi. Three of the 10 dead persons, including the driver of a Volvo bus involved in the accident, were residents of Bangalore. The accident occurred in Mulbagilu near Hanumanahalli in Kolar district, about 90 km from Bangalore, after two Karnataka state RTC buses collided. As many as 25 persons were injured in the mishap. BANGALORE: An accident on the national highway connecting Bangalore and Chennai killed 10 persons, including three women and a child, at 2 am on Monday.