School authorities of JS Vidhya Niketan threw caution to winds, which led to the death of 15 students in the accident involving the school bus and a truck on Thursday.
School authorities of JS Vidhya Niketan threw caution to winds, which led to the death of 15 students in the accident involving the school bus and a truck on Thursday.
Bystanders gather near the scene of a bus crash in Etah in the state of Uttar Pradesh. (AFP Photo)
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The school bus carried around 60 children against a capacity of 35, according to Parush Ram Singh, in-charge of Aliganj police station.
“The accident took place at about 7.30 am when there was dense fog and visibility was very low,” Singh said, adding that these students were from rural area of Raja Ka Rampur and other villages of Aliganj area.
Inspector general, Agra zone, Sujeet Pandey said the accident could have been avoided had authorities of the residential school followed the district administration’s order to shut schools till January 20 due to cold weather.
“Action will be taken against authorities of school which has violated the orders,” Pandey said.
Two girls on bicycles too were killed in the accident as the vehicle involved in accident took a steep turn to avoid hitting them.
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“Driver of school bus was killed on spot while driver of truck has lost both his legs,” Singh said.
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“Driver of school bus was killed on spot while driver of truck has lost both his legs,” Singh said.
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The injured were taken to primary health centre in Aliganj where dead bodies were also shifted, he said.
Those with serious injuries were shifted to Agra, Aligarh and Safai Medical College.
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.
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