Driver injured as flex board smashes bus windscreen

Press Trust of India  |  Kolkata 

The of a state-run bus Tuesday was injured in the central part of the city when an advertisement flex board came crashing down on the windscreen, a Police said.

The incident happened at around 11.40 am when a West Bengal Transport Corporation bus of route S9A was passing through Jawaharlal Nehru Road near the when the advertisement board, affixed to a lamp post, fell on the windscreen of the moving bus, he said.

"In the process, the windscreen of the bus was cracked and the bus received minor injury on his forehead. He was taken to the and discharged after preliminary treatment," he said.

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First Published: Tue, January 29 2019. 20:10 IST