June 28, 2012

One killed in bus-lorry collision, 14 hurt

One died and 14 passengers, including eight women and a small boy, were severely injured on Wednesday evening after the bus in which they were travelling hit a lorry near Hosur in Krishnagiri.

A Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus bound from Harur in Dharmapuri going towards Hosur with more than 40 passengers when it hot a lorry near Konneripalli village on the Chennai-Bengaluru national highway, according to police.

Police said that the two vehicles collided as the lorry driver did not notice the bus.

The 14 people who were injured were shifted to the Hosur government hospital.