More than 15 persons including the driver and conductor were injured after a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus hit a roadside tamarind tree when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle on Chengam Main Road at Athiyandal village near Tiruvannamalai town on August 5.
Police said that the government bus (Route No: 438; Salem to Kancheepuram) was heading to Kancheepuram with 17 commuters, who are mostly from Kancheepuram) when the bus driver, C. Suresh (47), a resident of Vandavasi, failed to notice the concrete median at the entry of Tiruvannamalai town on the stretch.