In a tragic road accident on Monday (December 29) night at Bhandup Station Road in suburban Mumbai, a BEST bus hit several pedestrians while reversing. Four people died in this accident, while nine others were injured. The accident occurred around 10 pm, when the area outside the railway station was filled with people returning from office. There was chaos at the spot after the incident.
According to police and civic officials, the bus was allegedly going backwards on the narrow and congested Station Road, when several people standing on the roadside and passing by were hit. As soon as the information was received, emergency services reached the spot and the injured were admitted to nearby hospitals. The bus driver has been taken into custody and the process of registering an FIR in the case is underway. The incident has been captured in the CCTV camera installed in a nearby clothing shop, which is being investigated.
Officials have confirmed the complete list of dead and injured in the accident.
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According to the hospital administration, the four deceased have been identified as: Pranitha Sandeep Rasam (35, female) – declared dead at Rajawadi Hospital, Varsha Sawant (25, female) – declared dead at MT Aggarwal Hospital, Mansi Meghshyam Gurav (49, female) – declared dead at MT Aggarwal Hospital, Prashant Shinde (53, male) – dead on arrival at MT Aggarwal Hospital.
Nine people have been injured in this accident, who are undergoing treatment in various hospitals. The condition of everyone is said to be stable.
Sheetal Prakash Hadve (39, female) and Ramdas Shankar Rupe (59), who were slightly injured in the accident, have been admitted to Sion Hospital. The other injured in the accident have been identified as Narayan Bhikaji Kamble (59), Mangesh Mukund Dhukhande (45), Jyoti Vishnu Shirke (55), Pratap Gopal Korpe (60), Ravindra Sevram Ghadigaonkar (56), Dinesh Vinayak Sawant (49), Purva Sandeep Rasam (12) and Prashant Dattaram Lad (51).
Describing the incident as extremely unfortunate, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has announced financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the deceased. He also wished for the speedy recovery of the injured.
According to a BEST spokesperson, this air-conditioned nine-metre Olectra bus was operated on wet lease and was running between Nagaradas Nagar to Bhandup station on 606 Ring Road route. According to preliminary information, the driver was trying to take a U-turn to take the bus towards a nearby depot when the bus went out of control, allegedly due to pressing the accelerator instead of the brake.
Local shopkeepers were the first to provide help. Eyewitnesses and locals say that due to encroachment and heavy crowd on the footpaths outside the station, pedestrians have to walk on the road. Police also say that this area is one of the most congested parts of Bhandup, where buses face difficulty in turning late in the evening.
It is noteworthy that this is a major accident related to BEST for the second consecutive December. On December 9 last year, nine people were killed and 37 were injured when a BEST bus collided in Kurla. Investigation is going on in the present case and further action is being taken on the basis of CCTV footage.
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