13 Students Injured as Tourist Bus Hits School Bus in Surathkal
Mangaluru: Thirteen students were injured after a tourist bus rammed into a school bus from behind near the Sundar Ram Shetty Convention Hall at Kolnadu in Surathkal on Friday evening.
The school bus belonged to a private School in Kulai and was carrying 16 children at the time of the accident. The injured students were taken to a private hospital in Mukka for treatment.
According to reports, the school bus had stopped by the side of the national highway in front of the convention hall to drop off the children when a private tourist bus allegedly approaching at high speed hit it from behind.
The impact caused the school bus to veer off the road and fall into a ditch beside the highway, injuring 13 of the 16 children on board. Local residents and members of the public immediately assisted in shifting the injured students to the hospital.
Mangaluru North Traffic Police visited the spot and conducted an inspection. Police reportedly seized the tourist bus involved in the accident and registered a case. Further investigation is under way.