Bus Accident Chennai

A passenger was killed and 20 others were injured after a bus carrying 45 people from Chennai to Coimbatore overturned and fell into a ditch near the Chengalpattu district, police said.

At least 8 persons were killed and many injured when the tourist bus they were travelling in fell into a gorge in this hilly district on Saturday, police said.

Six men and two women including Indians were killed in a major accident when their mini bus got crushed between two trucks on a highway in southern England. The crash occurred on the southbound M1 highway at Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire yesterday.

A stretch of road in Chennai's Anna Salai caved in on Sunday, trapping a city bus and a car. Passengers however managed to escape and there were no injuries, authorities said. Tamil Nadu Finance Minister D Jayakumar blamed the construction of an underground metro line for the incident.

Four students standing on the footboard of a bus died in a freak accident at Perungudi, outside Chennai this morning. According to police the accident occurred when the city bus drove past a truck that was reversing on the other lane.

Tamil Nadu police have arrested a motor vehicle inspector for issuing fitness certificate for a defective school bus that resulted in the death of a six-year-old girl here a day ago.

Six-year-old Shruti was returning home in the bus. She wasn't standing on the footboard or peering out of the window. The bus was so badly maintained that the floor which already had some patch work caved in. Shruti fell down and was run over.

In a bizarre incident, a young girl died in Chennai on Wednesday after she fell from a hole on the floor of her school bus, in Mudichur area near Tambaram.

We were driving underneath Chennai's Gemini Flyover after an interview when Divya, an intern accompanying me, received a call from her sister who happened to be at the Apollo Hospitals. Her message: "a bus fell off the flyover and all ambulances are rushing".

NDTV was among the first few television crews to reach the Gemini flyover - the site of the accident, as we jumped out of our cars due to the maze of traffic and sprinted to the spot. My first impression on seeing the tell-tale signs - the Metropolitan Transport Corporation Bus lying on its side, after smashing through the wall of the flyover and h...

About 30 passengers were injured, one seriously, when a bus, number 17-M, fell off the Anna Gemini flyover in the heart of Chennai. Police are trying to ascertain whether the driver was over speeding and lost control of the bus as he negotiated a bend on the flyover this afternoon. They are also checking call records to find out if he was using a m...

One person died and three were seriously injured when the car they were travelling in collided with a state transport bus at nearby Mullur, police said.

Nine persons were killed and 29 others injured when a bus and a lorry collided and went up in flames in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu today.The two vehicles caught fire after diesel tank of the state-owned bus burst due to the impact of the head-on collision at Sorandai village, police said here.The bus was on its way from Vellore to Cudda...

A passenger was killed and 20 others were injured after a bus carrying 45 people from Chennai to Coimbatore overturned and fell into a ditch near the Chengalpattu district, police said.

At least 8 persons were killed and many injured when the tourist bus they were travelling in fell into a gorge in this hilly district on Saturday, police said.

Six men and two women including Indians were killed in a major accident when their mini bus got crushed between two trucks on a highway in southern England. The crash occurred on the southbound M1 highway at Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire yesterday.

A stretch of road in Chennai's Anna Salai caved in on Sunday, trapping a city bus and a car. Passengers however managed to escape and there were no injuries, authorities said. Tamil Nadu Finance Minister D Jayakumar blamed the construction of an underground metro line for the incident.

Four students standing on the footboard of a bus died in a freak accident at Perungudi, outside Chennai this morning. According to police the accident occurred when the city bus drove past a truck that was reversing on the other lane.

Tamil Nadu police have arrested a motor vehicle inspector for issuing fitness certificate for a defective school bus that resulted in the death of a six-year-old girl here a day ago.

Six-year-old Shruti was returning home in the bus. She wasn't standing on the footboard or peering out of the window. The bus was so badly maintained that the floor which already had some patch work caved in. Shruti fell down and was run over.

In a bizarre incident, a young girl died in Chennai on Wednesday after she fell from a hole on the floor of her school bus, in Mudichur area near Tambaram.

We were driving underneath Chennai's Gemini Flyover after an interview when Divya, an intern accompanying me, received a call from her sister who happened to be at the Apollo Hospitals. Her message: "a bus fell off the flyover and all ambulances are rushing".

NDTV was among the first few television crews to reach the Gemini flyover - the site of the accident, as we jumped out of our cars due to the maze of traffic and sprinted to the spot. My first impression on seeing the tell-tale signs - the Metropolitan Transport Corporation Bus lying on its side, after smashing through the wall of the flyover and h...

About 30 passengers were injured, one seriously, when a bus, number 17-M, fell off the Anna Gemini flyover in the heart of Chennai. Police are trying to ascertain whether the driver was over speeding and lost control of the bus as he negotiated a bend on the flyover this afternoon. They are also checking call records to find out if he was using a m...

One person died and three were seriously injured when the car they were travelling in collided with a state transport bus at nearby Mullur, police said.

Nine persons were killed and 29 others injured when a bus and a lorry collided and went up in flames in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu today.The two vehicles caught fire after diesel tank of the state-owned bus burst due to the impact of the head-on collision at Sorandai village, police said here.The bus was on its way from Vellore to Cudda...