Handing over an automatic bus to an inexperienced driver caused a fatal accident at Vijayawada bus stand. The inquiry committee’s report on the incident that claimed three people have lost their lives. It is recommended to give government jobs to the families of the deceased.
Driver’s inexperience caused Volvo bus to crash at Vijayawada bus stand, killing three. The report of the RTC inquiry committee revealed that the accident took place due to the careless driving of the bus by the driver. The driver, who will be retiring in three months, was given an automatic transmission Volvo bus with no experience, leading to a fatal accident.
In the incident of Guntur-Vijayawada Metro luxury bus ramming at Vijayawada bus stand, it was found that the driver’s carelessness and negligence was the cause of the accident. It was found that there were no technical faults in the bus, but the driver accelerated to reverse while in drive mode, and it lurched forward. When the bus was supposed to go back, it lurched forward in drive mode.
V. Prakasam, who is a luxury bus driver for RTC long distance services, has recently been assigned duties in a Metro luxury Volvo bus. Vijayawada-Guntur inter city service was handed over even though Olvo did not know how to drive the bus. It was found that while leaving the bus stand, he wanted to reverse and tried to drive back in the drive mode by shifting the gear like normal buses.
It is said that the driver accelerated under the illusion that he was driving the bus backwards. The crash took place seconds before the bus realized it was moving ahead. A woman and a seven-month-old child died in this incident along with the outsourcing conductor.