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Wednesday October 30, 2013 A Volvo luxury sleeper bus in Hyperabad India carrying 50 home for the Diwali festival rammed into a culvert and caught fire early morning. The bus was passing at 5 a.m. when it crashed into a barrier and hit a drain, igniting the fuel tank.. The driver and assistant fled by the door, but others were trapped by an automatic locking system that could be controlled by the driver which jammed the emergency exits. Most of the passengers were sleeping, but five passengers escaped by breaking windows. It was noted that five software engineers from Bangalore working in one of India's premier export fields lost their lives. Most bodies were too burned to identify. The driver was detained, and charges were filed against the company which carried 50 passengers, 7 over maximum capacity. India has a reputation for dangerous roads with one death every five minutes. Police and doctors suspect the bus driver was drunk.
DUI in the US appears to be an licence for staged murder, but this doesn't happen in India.
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Ill-fated bus driver was drunk? Suspect police
Ill-fated bus driver was drunk? Suspect police Hyderabad, Oct 30/2013 : (INN):Preliminary investigation by the Mahabubnagar police ..led the police to suspect that the bus driver of Jabbar Travels was drunk when the tragic accident happened. ..doctors, who are treating the driver, suspected that he was in inebriated condition. His blood samples have been taken and sent to Hyderabad for forensic examination.
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HYDERABAD, India — A bus crashed into a highway barrier and burst into flames Wednesday in southern India, killing 45 passengers who were locked inside the cabin after the driver fled, officials said. The driver, a bus cleaner and five passengers managed ...
comment: sukebe7 Its a wonder they can maintain their IT contracts with all the accidents they have
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Mezafo at 5:12 AM October 30, 2013
India bus crash kills 42
The US death rate per 100,000 (10.4) is almost identical to that of India (10.7), (2011 data). The vehicle ownership rates are: 797 (2010 data, per 1000 population), and 18 (2009). Clearly, not all US vehicles are in use - an ownership rate of 1000 would imply every newborn baby, every cell-occupant, and every hospital bed occupant was out driving. To allow for ownership of multiple vehicles, adjust the value to, say, 300 US vehicles in use per 1000 population. India will have virtually no redundant vehicles, and will have the full 18 vehicles per 1000 population in use. So a better indication of the relative mortality rates might be 300/18 - at least an order of magnitude greater in India. However, even that ratio is questionable since the vehicle statistics do not include 2-wheel vehicles - bicycles and motor cycles - both of which would be relatively trivial in the US, but could easily push the Indian "vehicle" rate up by an order of magnitude. In which case, the effective mortality rates for those actually using the roads for the US and India may not be vastly different. In conclusion, this appears to be a poorly researched article that chooses to focus on the hype of a tragic accident in order to imply a horrendous death rate attributable to "poor quality roads", when the reality maybe that the rate per road user is not significantly different from that in the US.
There have been buses in Canada and the US where BUS drivers appeared to deliberately drive into the path of moving trains, or plunge off bridges in other nations. Will anybody investigate whether this could have been some sort of attack on the part of the driver?
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From India
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday expressed sorrow at the death of 45 people in a fire accident in a bus in Andhra Pradesh. While extending his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families, he wished a speedy recovery to those injured in the ...
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MAHBUBNAGAR: Forty-five passengers were feared dead when a private Volvo bus from Bangalore to Hyderabad caught fire on the Mahbubngar national highway-44 during early hours on Wednesday. Among those who died in the Volvo bus accident in ...
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Five software engineers were among 44 persons who were burnt alive in a few horrifying minutes when a Volvo bus belonging to private travel agency Jabbar Travels caught fire early on Wednesday morning some 140 kms away from Hyderabad, near Palem ...
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Forty-five people were killed after a private bus carrying them rammed into a culvert and its fuel tank caught fire in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh early Wednesday morning. A private bus, carrying about 49 passengers, caught fire after hitting a ...
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Hyderabad, Oct 30: The horrific bus fire in Mahabubnagar district Wednesday snuffed out many young lives, plunging their families into gloom on the eve of Diwali. Some of them working in Bangalore were returning home to celebrate the festival of lights while ...
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At least 40 persons are feared dead when a private bus coming from Bangalore to Hyderabad caught fire at Kothakota in Mahbubnagar district, 140 km from here, after it hit a road divider in the early hours of Wednesday. The volvo bus belonging to Jabbar ...
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Forty-four passengers were charred to death in an accident near Kothakota in Mahabubnagar district, 130 km from Hyderabad, when a private passenger bus from Bangalore went in flames in the early hours on Wednesday. The Volvo bus operated by Jabbar ...
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