Two injured as dashing bus hits autorickshaw, constructing alongside Alagarkoil highway in Madurai

Two individuals had been significantly injured in a highway accident after a dashing school bus hit an autorickshaw after which rammed a constructing alongside Alagarkoil Road at Sundararajanpatti right here on Friday.

The police mentioned that the bus, belonging to an engineering school in Kidaripatti, was continuing from Madurai in the direction of the school, carrying college students.

As the bus was crossing Sundararajanpatti, the motive force, Ramakrishnan, 52, misplaced management of the dashing bus and it received dragged in the direction of the precise facet of the four-way freeway.

With no median laid on this stretch of the highway, the bus entered the carriage means of the other lane and hit the autorickshaw coming from the other facet, mentioned Deputy Superintendent of Police (Oomachikulam), Balasundaram.

It dragged the three-wheeler for some 20 ft after which hit a constructing on the precise facet of the highway.

M. Arumugam, 48, who was sitting on the steps of the constructing sustained fractures on each his legs within the accident.

The autorickshaw driver, A. Kannan, 48, suffered a number of accidents and was rushed to a non-public hospital.

Along with Arumugam, the bus driver, who additionally sustained accidents, was admitted to Government Rajaji Hospital, the police mentioned.