Karnataka bus fire: Another driver’s quick decision saved 43 lives

CHITRADURGA/BENGALURU: Nothing seemed amiss to Sachin (25), driving a non-public bus with 43 pre-university college students on board, when a sleeper bus overtook him alongside the toll road in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district early Thursday.

“I saw the bus overtake mine. Everything looked normal,” he recalled.

“But within seconds, the scene outside my windscreen turned horrific.” A container truck jumped the median and ploughed straight into the sleeper bus. No topic efforts, the front of his bus clipped the burning sleeper bus forward of veering off the aspect road and landing shut to a ditch.The impression shattered the windscreen leaving Sachin bleeding from a extreme head danger.