Kota: At least 21 passengers, including children, were injured in a collision between a private bus and a tractor-trolley on National Highway-27 in the early hours of Friday. Baran DistrictPolice said.
incident occurred under Kishangarh On Friday morning at around 5.30 am, a mustard-laden tractor-trolley coming from the wrong side collided with a speeding bus, which was going towards Kanpur. Uttar Pradesh From Rajkot in Gujarat, he said.
Baran’s assistant superintendent of police Vijay Swarnkar said, “In an attempt to avoid a collision, the bus rammed into the front of the tractor and rammed into a divider on NH-27 and overturned.”
He said that the four-year-old boy trapped in the overturned bus was immediately removed from the crane and rescued safely without any injury.
The ASP said that the injured passengers were undergoing first aid at the Baran district hospital and none of them were in a critical condition.
Baran District Collector Narendra Gupta supervised the medical care being given to the injured, police said.
He said the highway has been cleared for regular traffic.
After the accident, the bus driver fled from the spot and the tractor-trolley was also not found on the spot. The ASP said that efforts are on to trace their whereabouts.
incident occurred under Kishangarh On Friday morning at around 5.30 am, a mustard-laden tractor-trolley coming from the wrong side collided with a speeding bus, which was going towards Kanpur. Uttar Pradesh From Rajkot in Gujarat, he said.
Baran’s assistant superintendent of police Vijay Swarnkar said, “In an attempt to avoid a collision, the bus rammed into the front of the tractor and rammed into a divider on NH-27 and overturned.”
He said that the four-year-old boy trapped in the overturned bus was immediately removed from the crane and rescued safely without any injury.
The ASP said that the injured passengers were undergoing first aid at the Baran district hospital and none of them were in a critical condition.
Baran District Collector Narendra Gupta supervised the medical care being given to the injured, police said.
He said the highway has been cleared for regular traffic.
After the accident, the bus driver fled from the spot and the tractor-trolley was also not found on the spot. The ASP said that efforts are on to trace their whereabouts.