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Days after a local city bus fatally knocked down seven people and injured 42 others in Mumbai, the city’s transport department has suspected that a “human error” and “lack of proper training” led to the horrific accident.
A report by Regional Transport Office (RTO) officials, who conducted a probe after the incident, said that it seems the bus driver was inexperienced to drive the automatic transmission bus with no clutch and gear like the conventional buses, and he was probably not given proper training before being permitted to drive the 12-meter-long bus.
“If a driver doesn’t have experience driving an automatic transmission bus, he doesn’t get proper judgment of acceleration and braking initially. Hence, it seems human error may have caused the accident,” an RTO official was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
In the RTO’s inspection, the officials also found that the brakes and all other systems, including the headlights of the bus, were operating fine, thereby rejecting the possibility of a technical malfunction behind the accident.
RTO sources said the electric bus was just three months old as it was registered in the name of EVEY TRANS on August 20, 2024. The driver was supplied through a Pune-based third-party agency.
According to RTO officials, the inspection team checked all three CCTV cameras installed inside the bus, and their footage suggests that the entire horror unfolded within a span of 52 to 55 seconds.
“The entire horror has happened within 52-55 seconds,” said an official to news agency PTI, adding that, as per the BEST’s records, the driver had signed on duty on December 6 at around 2.45 pm, and the accident occurred at about 9.35 pm.
