Meanwhile, a report from the Amravati District Transport Office said that the accident on the Samrudi Expressway could not have been caused by a flat tire.
Release date – Saturday, July 23 at 05:00 pm
Mumbai: Police in Maharashtra state suspected “human error” of the bus accident on the Samruddhi highway in Burdhana district in the early hours of Saturday that left 25 passengers burnt to death, an official said. Contrary to the driver’s claim that the private sleeper bus caught fire after hitting the barrier with a punctured tire, officers believe he dozed off and lost control of the vehicle, state highway police officials said.
There were 33 people on board the bus from Nagpur to Pune. Twenty-five people were killed in the accident in Pimpalkhuta village near Sindkhedraja at 1.30am. Eight people survived, including the bus driver and a cleaner, who managed to escape through broken windows, according to police.
After stopping for dinner at Karanja in the Yavatmal district, the bus traveled about 150 kilometers along the Mumbai-Nagpur expressway to Sindh Raja, which took about two and a half hours. He said this indicated that the average speed of the buses was 60-70 kilometers per hour.
“The speed of the vehicle may not have been an issue,” he said, adding that it appeared to be the result of human error.
“Because the driver may have dozed off, the bus turned to the right and hit first the crash barrier and then the barrier,” he said.
He said that although the bus driver said it was due to a flat tire, due to the darkness, an investigation was still underway to determine whether it was caused by human error. After the accident, the bus’s diesel tank burst and caught fire, he said.
Meanwhile, a report from the Amravati District Transport Office said the accident on the Samrudi Expressway could not have been caused by a flat tire as there were no rubber chips or tire marks at the scene.
Based on survivor accounts, the RTO reported that there was no evidence at the scene (fragments of tire rubber after a burst) or tire marks, and that the impact marks were on the bent wheel disc, not the tire itself. .
