A person who was seriously injured in a car-bus collision on Saturday night succumbed to his injuries at the Government Medical College Hospital here on Sunday.
According to the police, Babu (58) of Anjupriya House, Kottavila in Nedumangad, Thiruvananthapuram, who was driving the car, was hit by a Sabarimala-bound KSRTC bus near Chavittuvari on the MC Road between Ettumanur and Kottayam town at midnight Saturday. The driver of the KSRTC bus lost control of the bus while trying to save a scooterist who had entered the road from a side road, and hit the car coming from Kottayam side.
Babu was rushed to a private hospital and from there to the MCH, where he died on Sunday.
His body was handed over to relatives.