Narrow escape for 30 bus passengers

Addanki: The lives of more than 30 people were saved by sheer luck when a travels bus lunges ahead to overtake a speeding lorry and lost control in Prakasam district on Sunday morning. According to police, an Orange Travels bus from Hyderabad was heading towards Nellore with 30 passengers on Saturday night.

The bus is scheduled to reach the destination by 9.30 am on Sunday. By the time, the bus reached to Kopperapadu village in Ballikurava mandal in the early morning, the driver tried to overtake a lorry in front of it. While overtaking the lorry, the bus driver did not aware that a few people are gathered at the road side tea stall in the village and mowed down a man Shaik Saida and dragged him for a distance to kill him in the accident.

As the brakes are applied suddenly, the bus halted with a jolt and inclined towards the side dry pit. The passengers and the remaining villagers at the tea shop said that it is their sheer luck that stopped the bus from over turning at that speed and saved their lives. On receipt of information, Ballikurava SI Y Nagaraju reached the spot immediately and helped the passengers to reach their destinations in alternate vehicles. He arrested the bus driver and registered a case.