For the second day in south Chennai, a government bus was involved in a fatal road accident that led to the death of a 24-year-old youth near Kathipara flyover on Friday evening.
The motorcycle of the youth, working in a star hotel in the city, was hit by the bus and he came under its wheels, traffic police said.
Shahinsha (24), a native of Cuddalore district, was on his way to work around 4 p.m., when the accident took place. The SETC bus was headed to Puducherry. St. Thomas Mount traffic investigation wing police registered a case and arrested bus driver Radhakrishnan (42), also of Cuddalore, for causing the death due to rash driving and negligence. The body of the victim was sent to Tambaram Taluk Government Hospital at Chromepet for a post-mortem and further investigations are on. Motorists and eye-witnesses were furious after the death of the youth and accused drivers of heavy vehicles, including government buses, of reckless driving on the national highway. On Thursday evening, a 50-year-old woman died and four others were injured when a Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus ploughed into a bus shelter on Lattice Bridge Road, Adyar.
Elsewhere at Muttukadu, a 21-year-old-died after the motorcycle which she was travelling, was hit by a bus. Gayathri, (21) of Thiruneermalai was riding pillion on the motorcycle driven by her friend Anwar Kareem, (25). On the Muttukadu Bridge, Anwar lost control when the motorcycle went into a pit. Both of them fell and a bus from Kelambakkam ran over Gayathri.
