Hit-and-run case: Bus driver suspected of causing accident instead of unidentified vehicle

A bus driver in Navi Mumbai is suspected of being responsible for a fatality, after initially claiming it was a hit-and-run incident. The driver, Anil Dere, rushed the victim, Ravindra Pandurang Kadam, to the hospital but CCTV footage shows no evidence of another vehicle hitting Kadam. The police suspect that the driver accidentally collided with Kadam while taking a reverse. The investigation is ongoing.

Navi Mumbai: Initially thought to be a hit-and-run incident, an accident in Nerul is now under scrutiny as the bus driver, Anil Dere, who rushed the victim to the hospital, is suspected to be the one responsible for the fatality. The deceased, identified as Ravindra Pandurang Kadam, 40, worked as a cleaner on a school bus.

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On Saturday morning around 5:50 am, Kadam and Dere left Father Agnel School in Vashi to pick up school children. Near Vazirani signal on Palm Beach Road, they saw another stalled bus. “According to the driver, he wanted to take a turn to Karave village but since another bus was stalled ahead of their bus, there was no place to take a turn and he had to take a reverse,” senior police inspector Tanaji Bhagat from Nerul police station said. To take a reverse, Kadam got down from the bus to guide the driver. According to the statement that the driver gave, when Kadam got down, an unidentified vehicle rammed him and fled. Since he sustained head injuries, Dere rushed him to Dr DY Patil Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.