States »NortPosted at: Jul 12 2021 9:50PM One person killed and 14 bus passengers injured in a road accident
Hoshiarpur, Jul 12 (UNI) One person was killed and 14 other bus passengers were injured when a speeding private bus in which they were traveling, rammed into a roadside tree near village Rampur, about 28 Kms from here on the Hoshiarpur-Tanda road on Monday evening.
Scooter rider Sukhjinder Singh (30), son of Lakhbir Singh of Kandhala Jattan succumbed to his injuries at local government hospital, said the local police.
The injured were identified as Vandana (32), wife of Vishal Kumar of Bhagian, Kiran (42), wife of Simar Lal of Jaura, her son Kunal (21) and daughter Ria (12), Baljinder Kaur (27), daughter of Joginder Ram of Jaura and Jatinder (45), son of Nirmal Singh of village Harchowal, district Gurdaspur all were admitted in the local government hospital from where Ria and Baljinder Kaur were referred to local private hospitals, the police said.
The injured admitted at the Tanda hospitals were identified as Satnam Singh, son of Kulwant Singh of Shala, Maninderjit Kaur, wife of Ravinder Singh of Moonak Kalan, Simmi, wife of Neeraj Kumar of Koompur, Sandeep Sunny, son of Jeet Singh of Moonak Khurd, Rekha, wife of Rajiv Kumar of Sarai, Mohan Singh, son of Chanan Singh of Chotala, Jaswant Kaur, wife of Teluram of Budhi Pind and Davinderpal of Jalalpur, police said.
SHO of Bullowal police station Inspector Pardeep Singh said that the bus was on it's way to Tanda from Hoshiarpur.
While trying to save the scooter rider, the bus driver lost control over the vehicle due to which after hitting the scooter rider his bus rammed into a roadside tree near village Rampur. The bus hit the tree so hard that an eight -year-old girl and a woman were entangled between engine and seats of the bus. The police and the passers-by got them rescued with the help of the JCB machine.
At the time of the accident about 30 passengers were on board in the bus.
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