On October 10, a drunk man, who was driving a school bus, rammed into a bike and mowed down two pedestrians near Dodda Banaswadi. One of the three victims died on October 13 following injuries. Before the accident, the driver had picked up 20 children from a school to drop them home.
This and a few other incidents involving school buses in recent times, including cases of rash driving, have made parents worry about the safety of children travelling by these vehicles.
According to the data provided by the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP), a total of seven fatal accidents and 23 non-fatal accident cases have been booked against school vehicles so far in 2023. In 2022, there were seven fatal and 20 non-fatal accidents during the entire year. While there were no fatal accidents in 2020 and 2021 which were the lockdown years, in 2019 and 2018, there were four and two fatal accidents respectively, involving school vehicles.
