The woman who was critically injured in an accident after she was hit by a speeding KSRTC bus while trying to negotiate a bad stretch of road on Monday morning, succumbed to injuries in the wee hours of Tuesday.
According to the police, Umadevi, who was riding pillion, sustained grievous injuries after being hit by the KSRTC bus near Lulu Mall while her daughter, who was riding the scooter, was reportedly trying to negotiate a pothole on a bad stretch of road. She needed surgery but before that could be performed, she breathed her last around 1 a.m. due to excessive bleeding.
This is the fourth pothole-related death in the city this year. However, the government is not yet ready to call it so. Traffic police confirmed that while they have booked the KSRTC driver involved in the accident, no case has been booked against civic officials for the bad stretch of the road as whether potholes caused the accident was under probe. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said he had ordered a probe. “Repairing the road is one part of the problem. But I want to know why the accident happened,” he said.
Chief Civic Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath inspected the accident site Tuesday morning, by which time, civic officials had closed the potholes and redone the stretch of road. However, even that was done shabbily, a reality check revealed. Reacting to this, the Chief Minister said that it had come to his notice as well and he would ask authorities to refill the potholes.
