NEW DELHI: An elderly woman died and eight others were injured when an out-of-control cluster bus mowed them down on Desh Bandhu Gupta Road near Anand Parbat on Monday morning. The bus also hit three autorickshaws, two e-rickshaws and another car. The errant driver was caught by the locals and thrashed before being rescued by the police.
Passersby claimed the driver, Joginder Singh, drove the bus in a zigzag manner through the crowded road, almost brushing past a few other vehicles. Singh (48), however, claimed the vehicle had a brake failure due to which he couldn’t stop it on time. Cops have impounded the bus for inspection.
Police are also probing whether the cluster bus was the same vehicle that had hit a divider and ended up on the footpath near Wazirpur a few hours before the DB Gupta Road incident. In the Wazirpur incident, a passerby had clicked a photograph of a cluster bus and uploaded it on Delhi Traffic Police’s Twitter handle, asking them to intervene.
The incident took place around 8.30am when the bus was en route Anand Parbat from Nand Nagri. Singh had started speeding immediately after crossing Karol Bagh. He told the cops that once he realised the brakes weren’t working, he tried to dodge people on the road. In the melee, the bus hit three autorickshaws, three bikes and two e-rickshaws. Eyewitnesses claim that the damaged vehicles were dragged along the road for about 100 metres before the bus came to a halt on the footpath.
The deceased and the injured were on the e-rickshaws and were thrown out of them due to the impact. Bhaggo Devi (65) had got off one of the e-rickshaws and was about to get on a footpath when the bus crashed into her. She was rushed to Lady Hardinge College hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival.
Among the eight other victims, four are in a critical condition. The others were discharged after getting first aid.
The incident, meanwhile, led to a major chaos in the area as people started running for cover seeing the out-of-control bus ramming vehicles in its way. “I had to jump on the footpath to save myself otherwise I would have been run over,” said Pappu Singh, a worker at a nearby factory. Locals said Devi, too, had seen the bus, but could not move out of the way quickly.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Mandeep Singh Randhawa said a case of causing death due to negligence has been registered and the vehicle has been sent for a mechanical inspection to verify whether it had indeed suffered a brake failure.
Passersby claimed the driver, Joginder Singh, drove the bus in a zigzag manner through the crowded road, almost brushing past a few other vehicles. Singh (48), however, claimed the vehicle had a brake failure due to which he couldn’t stop it on time. Cops have impounded the bus for inspection.
Police are also probing whether the cluster bus was the same vehicle that had hit a divider and ended up on the footpath near Wazirpur a few hours before the DB Gupta Road incident. In the Wazirpur incident, a passerby had clicked a photograph of a cluster bus and uploaded it on Delhi Traffic Police’s Twitter handle, asking them to intervene.
The incident took place around 8.30am when the bus was en route Anand Parbat from Nand Nagri. Singh had started speeding immediately after crossing Karol Bagh. He told the cops that once he realised the brakes weren’t working, he tried to dodge people on the road. In the melee, the bus hit three autorickshaws, three bikes and two e-rickshaws. Eyewitnesses claim that the damaged vehicles were dragged along the road for about 100 metres before the bus came to a halt on the footpath.
The deceased and the injured were on the e-rickshaws and were thrown out of them due to the impact. Bhaggo Devi (65) had got off one of the e-rickshaws and was about to get on a footpath when the bus crashed into her. She was rushed to Lady Hardinge College hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival.
Among the eight other victims, four are in a critical condition. The others were discharged after getting first aid.
The incident, meanwhile, led to a major chaos in the area as people started running for cover seeing the out-of-control bus ramming vehicles in its way. “I had to jump on the footpath to save myself otherwise I would have been run over,” said Pappu Singh, a worker at a nearby factory. Locals said Devi, too, had seen the bus, but could not move out of the way quickly.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Mandeep Singh Randhawa said a case of causing death due to negligence has been registered and the vehicle has been sent for a mechanical inspection to verify whether it had indeed suffered a brake failure.
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