School bus driver runs over businessman

MUMBAI: A Borivli-based businessman died on Tuesday evening after he was crushed to death under the wheels of a school bus in Gamdevi. The accident took place at around 5:30pm on the Kennedy bridge when the driver of a school bus lost control of the vehicle due to a brake failure. The driver, Mushtaq Siddiquee (45), was arrested and booked for rash and negligent driving and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.A trial court on Wednesday released him on bail against a bond of Rs 20,000.
Siddiquee, a bus driver with St Colombo School, was dropping students back home when he realized that the brakes of the bus weren’t working. He tried to reduce the speed but rammed into a taxi parked in front. The taxi, in turn, banged into another bus parked in front of it. The impact of this collision apparently caused the school bus to turn about 90 degrees towards the right. The rear of the bus jumped the footpath and crushed Shah who was walking on it.
Shah was rushed to Nair Hospital in a critical condition . He died two hours later.
“We arrested the driver and seized the bus. It was his responsibility to ensure that the bus was in working condition . Thanks to heavy traffic at the time, the speed of the bus was slow, otherwise this could have led to a big disaster on the busy road,” said inspector A Tamek of Gamdevi police station.
Tamke said the children in the bus and the taxi driver did not report any injuries.