Elderly person injured in accident, dies at hospital

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: An elderly pedestrian who was mowed down by a speeding school bus recently succumbed to his injuries in a hospital on Thursday night.

The police arrested the driver involved in the accident. It was revealed that the school bus driver, identified as Subhash, was drunk at the time and he was booked under Section 304 for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, the Banaswadi police said on Friday.

The accident had taken place on October 10 around 2 pm, when the driver Subhash had picked up over 20 children from the school and was dropping them home. He lost control over the vehicle near Dodda Banaswadi and rammed into a bike and two pedestrians.

All three were admitted to a private hospital, where Anjanappa, 60, succumbed, while another pedestrian Shakti, 57, and bike rider Manjunath are being treated and are said to be out of danger.

A senior traffic police official said that the Transport Department is in charge of regulation and enforcement of rules on vehicles ferrying school children, but the same has not been strictly implemented.