In a horrific incident, a three-year-old nursery student was crushed to death under the wheels of the school bus in Mehendipur village of Sonepat district.
The negligent bus driver had forgotten to properly lock the door of the vehicle due to which the child fell from the bus. The incident took place after the child fell from her seat, hit the grill and stairs of the bus of Saraswati Senior Secondary School, Murthal.
The girl’s father had come to drop his daughter to the bus stop on a motorcycle and had seen that the door had been left unlocked. He tried to overtake the bus to warn the driver.
“I was going in the same direction that the bus was going to. I noticed it was speeding and tried to stop the bus, to no avail,” the father said.
He added, “The bus driver had forgotten to lock the door and applied brakes, suddenly, to avoid hitting another speeding bus on a turn. Due to this, my daughter, sitting on the front seat got her head banged on the grill and footsteps, and ultimately fell out of the door and got crushed under the rear wheels of the bus. It happened right in front of my eyes.” He rushed his daughter to hospital, where doctors pronounced her brought dead.
-PTC News
