15 injured as luxury bus rams into toll booth

Surat: At least 15 persons including two women employees of Mandal toll plaza in Songadh taluka of Tapi district were injured after a private luxury bus lost control and rammed into one of the toll booths on Thursday morning.
According to police, the incident occurred when the bus coming from Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh entered one of the lanes at Mandal toll plaza. The passengers in the bus were returning after attending a marriage function in Burhanpur, said police.
As the bus entered the toll lane, the driver lost control of the vehicle, broke the barricade and rammed into a toll booth. The CCTV footage of the incident shows one of the female employees trying to escape before the bus hit the booth. But before she could move the bus crashed into her cabin.
Soon after the crash, the passengers inside the bus started jumping out of the windows to save themselves, the CCTV footage showed. Locals, passers-by and other toll plaza employees rushed to rescue the passengers. At least 15 persons, including two women toll plaza employees, were injured in the accident and were taken to the government hospital in Vyara.
Tapi deputy superintendent of police R L Mavani, said that FIR was filed against the driver.