A collision between a car and a bus killed three individuals in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district on Saturday, according to the officials
The accident also injured 28 people, including 26 police personnel who were on the bus, they said.
Five individuals were travelling in a car when it got into another lane and crashed head-on with an oncoming bus, the police officials said. The bus had 26 police personnel. The accident happened near Dhanagada village, Keolari tehsil, under the jurisdiction of Keolari police station in Seoni district, in the early hours of Saturday.
Seoni SP Rakesh Kumar Singh told ANI, “The accident occurred at around 1 am. A bus carrying police personnel for duty left from Mandla and some people in a car were coming from Nagpur and going towards Mandla. When they reached near Dhanagada, the car driver tried to overtake; there was another vehicle moving ahead of him and ended up colliding head-on with the bus arriving from the opposite direction.”
“The collision was so intense that the shaft of the bus broke down. Due to this, the bus went out of control and overturned, injuring all 26 police jawans inside. Of them, two sustained severe injuries and one of them was referred to Nagpur while the family of another took him to Jabalpur,” SP Singh said.
The car driver died on the spot and four others travelling in the car were taken to Keolari Civil Hospital where two others succumbed to their injuries during treatment. Two others, including a woman was sent to Nagpur. The woman’s condition is serious according to the SP.
The deceased have been identified as Kanhaiya Jaswani (78), Nikhilesh Jaswani (45) and Raju Mahishad, all residents of Mandla district.