Pune:
When 30-year-old Santosh Mane was unleashing hell on the roads of Pune on Wednesday, sniffing out nine lives and injuring 30 others, one lucky student escaped the jaws of death.
"This is a new life for me," says Akanksha Jain, a third year engineering student in Pune.
Akanksha was on her way to college on that fateful day when she saw the killer bus speeding in, crushing people and vehicles in its way.
"The vehicle was coming the wrong side way. That's why I went to the right side. But the vehicle, the bus driver, I saw him rotating his steering wheel to the right and he came on me. The bus went over me and the vehicle, the Scooty, got damaged because I was stuck in that.
"The Scooty turned and my head went in the place meant for placing the legs. The whole thing went above us. We were stuck between the four wheels," she says while recalling the near-death experience.
Her family can't thank their stars enough. "I was very upset. Then we got a call saying that she had got minor injuries, then I felt better," said Dhatubai Jain, Akanksha's grandmother.
While death stalked the streets of Pune on Wednesday morning, not many were as lucky as Akansha, coming out alive virtually from the jaws of death.