Hyderabad: Three engineering students of HITAM (Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management) and the college bus driver received multiple injuries when a speeding lorry rammed the college bus from the rear at Dundigal on Wednesday evening.
According to Dundigal police, the bus belonging to the HITAM College was on its way to drop around 30 students to their homes when the accident took place at MLRIT cross roads. A speeding tipper lorry (TS 08 UD 7719) rammed the bus from the rear.
The students sitting in the last seats were crushed between the two vehicles and the driver of the bus suffered severe head injury as his head hit the frame.
“The injured students have been identified as M. Sai Kiran, Kalyan Sameera, Gnana Teja and bus driver Ramayya. They have been admitted to a nearby hospital for treatment,” stated college principal Dr S.V.S. Rama Krishnam Raju in his complaint to the police. The police said that a case of rash driving has been registered.
