1 killed, 8 injured as cluster bus rams multiple vehicles in Delhi

The vehicles that were hit by the bus in Delhi included three auto-rickshaws, three motorcycles and two e-rickshaws.

A 65-year-old woman was killed and eight others injured after the driver of a cluster bus, which was allegedly speeding, lost control of the vehicle and rammed eight vehicles before hitting the road divider and coming to halt on central Delhi’s Desh Bandhu Gupta (DBG) Road near Anand Parbat Monday morning.

Driver of a cluster bus, which was allegedly speeding, lost control of the vehicle and rammed eight vehicles before hitting the road divider. (Sourced)

The vehicles that were hit by the bus included three auto-rickshaws, three motorcycles and two e-rickshaws. The elderly woman, Bhago Devi from Karol Bagh, was seated in an e-rickshaw. The errant driver and conductor tried to flee but were chased and caught by locals. They thrashed the duo before handing them over to the police.

Police said a case of rash driving and death by negligence was registered against the driver, Joginder Singh,48. Singh claimed that the bus had a brake failure because of which he lost control of the vehicle.

“We have sent the bus for a mechanical inspection to verify the claims of the driver. The driver’s medical examination confirmed that he was not drunk at the time of mishap. He was later released on bail,” a police officer, associated with the case, said.

“Some eyewitnesses told us that the bus dragged at least eight vehicles for almost 100 metres before it hit the road divider and stopped. A few of them were badly damaged. At least nine people were injured and were rushed to a nearby hospital where the elderly woman succumbed to injuries,” the officer said.

Police said they are also probing if the same bus was involved in another accident in north Delhi’s Wazirpur, as someone had clicked the photograph of a cluster bus and uploaded it on
the traffic police website a few hours before the Anand Parbat accident.