Delhi: Bus rams into over a dozen vehicles, one killed

A Delhi Transport Corporation DTC low-floor electric bus rammed into more than a dozen vehicles in Rohini South here on Saturday, killing a man, police said.No passenger was in the bus when the accident occurred around 2.45 pm near Vishram Chowk in Awantika.

A Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) low-floor electric bus rammed into more than a dozen vehicles in Rohini South here on Saturday, killing a man, police said.

No passenger was in the bus when the accident occurred around 2.45 pm near Vishram Chowk in Awantika. The bus hit a car, then an e-rickshaw and two-wheelers parked on the side of a road, they said.

Police said the bus driver, Sandeep Kumar, was held from the spot. He told the police that he suffered from a seizure due to epilepsy, a brain disease.

Police have accessed multiple CCTV footage of the crash, where the bus could be seen hitting vehicles one by one. A few of the parked two-wheelers were damaged completely under the bus.

A man died on the spot while another was injured, police said, adding that it seems the bus driver lost control of the vehicle.

The deceased was yet to be identified, however the injured, Ram Sharma, a resident of Rohini Sector 3, was admitted to hospital.

Sharma suffered a head injury.

After dropping off passengers in Rohini, Kumar was on the way towards the depot when the accident took place, police said.

''He told us that he suffered from epilepsy. We have conducted his medical examination,'' a police officer said.

The police believed this is the first such fatal crash by the electric low-floor DTC bus, since its induction in the fleet of public transport.

The police said they have taken the statement of the bus driver to corroborate the sequence of events.

They said help of the local intelligence has been taken to identify the deceased. It is suspected that he worked as a rag picker.

At the time of the accident, he was crossing the road, police said.

A case has been registered at Rohini South police station and further investigations were on, they added.