Two persons were killed and 11 others were injured when a private bus in which they were travelling collided head-on with a truck near Moghilighat section on the Bengaluru-Chittoor National Highway in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours of Sunday.
The Volvo bus which was on its way to Bengaluru hit the truck carrying onions, coming in the opposite direction from Kolar. The impact was such that the front portions of both vehicles got entangled. District SP G Srinivas rushed three teams of police to help extricate dead bodies and rescue trapped passengers.
Eleven persons were rushed to Bangarupalem and Palamaner hospitals. Four of them were later shifted to hospitals in Bengaluru. According to the Chittoor police, the truck driver dozed off, leading to the collision. The driver and a woman passenger in the bus died on the spot.
For more than an hour, traffic came to a grinding halt on the national highway that also links the Krishnagiri-Hosur highway.
DHNews Service
The Volvo bus which was on its way to Bengaluru hit the truck carrying onions, coming in the opposite direction from Kolar. The impact was such that the front portions of both vehicles got entangled. District SP G Srinivas rushed three teams of police to help extricate dead bodies and rescue trapped passengers.
Eleven persons were rushed to Bangarupalem and Palamaner hospitals. Four of them were later shifted to hospitals in Bengaluru. According to the Chittoor police, the truck driver dozed off, leading to the collision. The driver and a woman passenger in the bus died on the spot.
For more than an hour, traffic came to a grinding halt on the national highway that also links the Krishnagiri-Hosur highway.
DHNews Service