17 December,2024 05:41 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The driver and conductor of a bus ferrying 50 children for a school trip were allegedly found under the influence of alcohol in the western suburbs of Mumbai on Tuesday, the police said, reported the PTI.
The Mumbai Traffic Police were conducting a surprise check in Andheri on Tuesday morning and intercepted a bus and conducted checks on the driver and conductor of the bus, an official said.
The bus was heading to Gorai for a school trip with students and teachers of a Sakinaka-based school, an official said.
The traffic personnel noticed that the bus was being driven dangerously, and on questioning the driver, they found that both he and the conductor were drunk, he said, according to the PTI.
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The official said that the school had hired the bus for the trip.
The bus driver and conductor were later handed over to Andheri Police Station for further action, he added, adding that the police is further probing the matter.
Kurla BEST bus crash: 52-year-old man succumbs to injuries, toll rises to 8
Meanwhile, a civic official on Monday said that a 52-year-old man, who was among the several persons injured in the BEST bus accident in Kurla area, died on Monday morning, taking the death toll to eight.
The electric bus, hired by the civic-run Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking on a wet-lease basis, ploughed into a crowd and fatally knocked down seven persons and injured 42 others on a crowded road in the Kurla area on December 9.
Several vehicles were also damaged in the incident.
One of the injured persons, identified as Fazlu Rehman, died during treatment at the Sion Hospital on Monday morning, the official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said, reported PTI.
BEST has set up a five-member committee to investigate the Kurla BEST bus crash.
Driver Sanjay More (54) is in police custody for alleged reckless driving.
In a statement issued last week, BEST said a committee, headed by Chief Manager (Transport) Ramesh Madavi, will investigate the Kurla BEST bus crash, reported PTI.
It also said that BEST would provide Rs 2 lakh each to the families of those who lost their lives and bear treatment expenses of the injured, reported PTI.
(with PTI inputs)
