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KSRTC bus crashes on expressway, driver and conductor killed
Two men were killed and 14 passengers injured after a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus overturned on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway near Bidadi on Saturday morning. The deceased were the bus driver…
The Story in Brief
Two men were killed and 14 passengers injured after a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus overturned on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway near Bidadi on Saturday morning. The deceased were the bus driver and conductor, belonging to the Kozhikode depot, police said.
The bus veered left, hit a roadside board, and overturned near Avaragere Bridge. Preliminary investigations suggest the driver may have dozed off. Injured passengers are in stable condition at a hospital. Bidadi police have registered a case.
The Indian Opinion
Every expressway crash blamed on a driver dozing off is a reminder that engineering fixes are talked about far more than they are installed. Rumble strips, lane-departure warnings, and fatigue detection cameras are standard on modern highways. How many of Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway's safety features were actually working the night this bus went down? The investigation report should list every system that was present and every one that was not.
Sources (2): thefederal.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
