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Blueline bus claims yet another life

Staff Reporter

Teenager mowed down at Vikaspuri; driver flees from the spot soon after the incident

NEW DELHI: Blueline buses continued to wreak havoc on the Capital’s roads as another teenager was mowed down by a rashly driven bus at Vikaspuri here on Sunday.

Fourteen-year-old Karan Sharma came under the rear wheels of the bus plying on route no. 883 -- from Uttam Nagar to Inter-State Bus Terminus at Kashmere Gate – while getting off near a park in Vikaspuri in the morning. The bus driver, a resident of Kharkhoda in Haryana, fled from the scene soon after the accident.

Karan, who used to go to the park every weekend to play cricket, boarded the bus along with two of his friends near his house in Uttam Nagar, said a family member.

“When the bus reached the park, Karan requested the driver to slow down and got off the bus.

He came under the rear wheels and died on the spot, but the driver did not stop the bus. After travelling a few metres, the driver told the passengers that the vehicle had developed some snag. He then got down from the bus and fled from the scene. It was only when the passengers got off the bus did they come to know that the boy had been run over,” said a police officer.

Karan’s father Yashpal Sharma works with a private company. A Class IX student of a private school, Karan was the youngest among the three siblings.

The police have registered a case of rash driving and causing death by negligence against the driver and impounded the bus. Teams have been despatched to the native village of the driver to arrest him. “We have also recommended cancellation of the bus permit,” the police officer said.

In a similar incident on Saturday, a rashly driven Blueline bus had run over a cyclist and seriously injured pedestrian Manish at Sultanpuri.

Also, a teenage boy was mowed down by a speeding Blueline bus at Rajouri Garden traffic signal on July 1 leading to huge public outcry, forcing the Delhi Government to suspend the permits of 600 Blueline buses.

The Government has already announced it decision to phase out Blueline buses.

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