DEHRADUN: Initial probe findings into Sunday's tragic Uttarkashi bus accident has revealed, according to police officers involved in the investigation, that the 46-year-old driver of the ill-fated vehicle that crashed into a deep gorge killing 26 pilgrims in it, was "overspeeding". Also that the driver "probably jumped off when he realised that the bus was about to plunge and there was nothing that he could do about it", said a senior officer privy to the probe.
Sharing some of the findings, the officer, requesting anonymity, told TOI, "It was a major accident. But we found that the driver, Hira Singh, has virtually no injuries on his body, some scratches here and there. This suggests that he may have jumped out of the moving bus. His helper, seated close by, did not survive."
