The spate of mishaps involving low-floor DTC buses continues; another vehicle catches fire on Sunday
The spate of mishaps involving low-floor DTC buses continues; another vehicle catches fire on Sunday
The swanky Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses are playing with fire, quite literally. Less than 20 days after separate incidents of fire and mechanical snag in the low-floor buses, another bus running on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) caught fire in Delhi. In the sixth such incident, the bus plying on the Outer Ring Road broke down with in the Sagarpur area of west Delhi on Sunday.
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The incident took place at 9.20 am when the rear wheel of the bus, with about 30 passengers onboard, jammed near a traffic signal and fire was noticed in the vehicle. The driver evacuated the bus safely and a call was made to the Delhi Fire Service Department.
A fire service official said, "We received a call around 9 am. It was a minor fire and the flames were soon doused. No one was injured."
DTC, however, denied that the bus had caught fire. DTC Deputy Chief General Manager RK Kasana said, "The bus did not catch fire. The smoke was probably caused by friction between a brake shoe and wheel. It was just a mechanical snag as the rear wheels of the bus had jammed and several factors could be responsible for it. We are investigating the matter."
There is nothing to worry about. After the incident the bus was first driven to Hari Nagar depot and later to Hasanpur in trans-Yamuna area."
He further said, "The officials of Tata Motors, which is responsible for the maintenance of these buses, have been asked to thoroughly verify all low-floor buses and make sure that such incidents do not happen in future.
The process will be undertaken under the supervision of our technical staff."
On Saturday, a bus plying from Badarpur to neighbouring Gurgaon had caught fire at Prahladpur around 9 pm.
Later in the day, another bus plying between Anand Parbat and Noida developed a snag near the Akshardham flyover. No one was injured in the two incidents.
The issue of fire in the newly-acquired low-floor buses also came up in the Delhi Assembly on Friday.
