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40 hurt as Volvo bus falls off Andhra bridge after hitting truck
A private Volvo bus travelling from Hyderabad to Bengaluru collided with an oncoming truck on NH 44 near Pogururu bridge in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district early Sunday and fell off the bridge,…
The Story in Brief
A private Volvo bus travelling from Hyderabad to Bengaluru collided with an oncoming truck on NH 44 near Pogururu bridge in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district early Sunday and fell off the bridge, with around 40 passengers injured. Reports say about 10 of the injured are in critical condition, telanganatoday.com reports. The accident occurred near the Poguru bridge, where the two vehicles crashed and plunged down. Rescue teams, including passersby and police, extricated the injured and rushed them to nearby hospitals. The bus was a private luxury service with approximately 40 passengers onboard.
The Indian Opinion
Highway accidents on NH 44 keep making news, but the blame game is predictable: drivers, road conditions, or lack of enforcement. What matters is that 40 passengers were on a luxury bus that plunged off a bridge after a collision, yet the exact cause, speed, fatigue, or poor design, remains unclear. Nobody is demanding a forensic audit of that stretch, nor asking if the truck driver or the bus driver was at fault. Will the district administration release the accident report, or will this vanish like hundreds before?
Sources (2): indiatvnews.com, telanganatoday.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
