COIMBATORE: Two people from Pollachi were critically injured when a speeding private bus rammed a car on a rail over bridge (ROB) near SIDCO at Sundarapuram here on Tuesday morning. The bus hit two more cars before coming to halt by smashing into the parapet wall of the bridge.
The car in which Nithin Prasad, 24, and his elder sister Kanjanadevi, 35, were travelling was completely mangled and other two cars were slightly damaged.
Bus driver Prakash was trying to overtake a vehicle on the bridge when he lost control of the bus and collided head-on with the car in which the injured were travelling from the opposite direction. The bus was on its way towards Pollachi from Coimbatore.
The bus then hit two more cars. The windshield and the front portion of the bus were damaged. Passengers of the bus suffered minor injuries. The bus driver and conductor managed to escape from the place.
Nithin Prasad and his sister were admitted to a private hospital. They suffered head injuries and fractures and are in an ICU, a police officer said.
Traffic investigation wing (west) police inspector D Veerammal and team rushed to the spot and cleared the cars from the bridge using a crane. Police registered a case against Prakash and picked him up for interrogation on Tuesday evening.
In yet another accident, a truck laden with bricks rammed into an autorickshaw parked on the NSR Road here on Tuesday morning. It came to halt after smashing into a hotel compound wall.
The driver, Ramesh, 31, from Chinna Thadagam, dozed off for a few seconds while riding on NSR Road from Thadagam Road.
The TIW (west) police have registered a case.