A journey in private air conditioned volvo bus from Bhubaneswara to Hyderabad turned out to be fateful as 10 people were killed and 32 injuries when the driver hit a bridge divider on NH65 resulting in the bus plunged through a gap between the two lanes into a canal from a height of 22ft near Mullapadu village in Penuganchiprolu mandal located 75 km away from Vijayawada in the early hours of Tuesday. 


Condition of 8 passengers is critical. The accident occurred at around 5.45AM when the driver Adinarayana Reddy turned drowsy while driving and crashed the bus with AP 02 TC 7146 number through a 3ft high retaining wall of the bridge. DGP Sambasiva Rao blamed rash driving for the accident. The bus was travelling at a speed of 120kmph. 


Injured passengers were shifted to Nandigama government hospital and later 11 are shifted to GGH, Vijayawada and 12 to Andhra Hospital to Gollapudi and 8 to Help Hospital. Both the bus driver and cleaner died on the spot. 7 passengers died on the spot while three succumbed to injuries.


TDP MLA JC Prabhakar Reddy is the owner of the bus belonging to Diwakar Travels. Police registered cases against travels. It is coming out that the ill fated bus violated rules manytimes. The bus was earlier fined Rs 2,000 for rash driving last month at Kathipudi checkpost in East Godavari. 


JC.Prabhakar Reddy said  “Despite my son-in-law (Dinesh Reddy) getting a seat (MLC seat), I am not happy because of this tragedy .I would like to think it is my illfate that the incident had happened,“ He added “It is unfortunate that the incident happened but the vehicle was maintaining t a stable speed,“


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