Survivors of Kerala RTC bus accident left in a state of shock
They say local people came to their rescue
21/02/2020, G. KRISHNAKUMAR,KOCHI
They say local people came to their rescue
21/02/2020, G. KRISHNAKUMAR,KOCHI
Mangled remains: The KSRTC bus that met with an accident on the outskirts of Tiruppur on Thursday. M. PERIASAMY
Charishma K. woke up on hearing a loud thud and found that the right side of the bus in which she was travelling was completely open.
A passenger in the Garuda Volvo bus of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation that met with a major tragedy at Avinashi on the Coimbatore-Salem highway early on Thursday, Ms. Charishma boarded the bus from Bengaluru and was on the way to her cousin’s house in Ernakulam. “My seat number was 3 and it was on the left side of the bus. I found that the right side of the bus was completely damaged when I suddenly woke up. It was all over in flash. I am still in a state of shock.” she told The Hindu over the phone.
“We could not get out through the main exit door as it got jammed. Locals, who rushed to the spot immediately, broke the glasspanes of windows and rescued us,” she said.
Ms. Charishma, a bank employee in Bengaluru and a resident of Kannur, said she was not injured.
The images of bodies lying on the road refuse to leave Sreelakshmi Menon, who was seated in the first row of the bus on the left side.
“I was asleep and woke up after experiencing a huge jerk. I still do not know how I got out as the exit door was stuck. It was only after watching the news later that I realised that a trailer had rammed our bus as I could not spot it after coming out,” she said. An employee with an e-commerce company in Bengaluru, Sreelakshmi was en route to her residence near Thrissur. “I was taken in an ambulance along with a few others to Revathi Medical Centre in Tiruppur, where I was administered first aid. An X-ray was also taken and doctors advised that I could leave,” she said.
Charishma K. woke up on hearing a loud thud and found that the right side of the bus in which she was travelling was completely open.
A passenger in the Garuda Volvo bus of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation that met with a major tragedy at Avinashi on the Coimbatore-Salem highway early on Thursday, Ms. Charishma boarded the bus from Bengaluru and was on the way to her cousin’s house in Ernakulam. “My seat number was 3 and it was on the left side of the bus. I found that the right side of the bus was completely damaged when I suddenly woke up. It was all over in flash. I am still in a state of shock.” she told The Hindu over the phone.
“We could not get out through the main exit door as it got jammed. Locals, who rushed to the spot immediately, broke the glasspanes of windows and rescued us,” she said.
Ms. Charishma, a bank employee in Bengaluru and a resident of Kannur, said she was not injured.
The images of bodies lying on the road refuse to leave Sreelakshmi Menon, who was seated in the first row of the bus on the left side.
“I was asleep and woke up after experiencing a huge jerk. I still do not know how I got out as the exit door was stuck. It was only after watching the news later that I realised that a trailer had rammed our bus as I could not spot it after coming out,” she said. An employee with an e-commerce company in Bengaluru, Sreelakshmi was en route to her residence near Thrissur. “I was taken in an ambulance along with a few others to Revathi Medical Centre in Tiruppur, where I was administered first aid. An X-ray was also taken and doctors advised that I could leave,” she said.
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