India: 17 people died as a result of bus accident on Mumbai highway
Dushanbe, 06.06.2016. /NIAT “Khovar”/. At least 17 people were died and more than 40 others wounded as a result of bus accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway in India Sunday morning, Xinhua news agency reports quoting senior police official.
According to a source, the accident took place around 5:30 a.m. (local time) when the speeding bus rammed into a car that had stopped on the side of the high-speed corridor to help the driver of another car that had also stopped to replace a flat tyre.
What followed was a disaster. The bus did not come to a halt after hitting the first stationery car and it went on to hit the other vehicle that had a deflated tyre, before careening into the 20-feet deep ditch on the left side of the expressway.
«While 17 people, including a six-month-old infant died on the spot, those injured have been admitted to local hospitals where the condition of a few are said to be serious. The victims were mostly passengers of the ill-fated bus,» the police official said.
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