More than seven years after inducting its first electric bus, the civic-run BEST undertaking has started training drivers at the Dindoshi centre for changes in technology the vehicles come with, an official said on Sunday. The trigger apparently is the accident of a 12-metre electric bus on the congested SG Barve Marg in Kurla West on December 9, in which nine people died.

The driver of the vehicle had been deployed since December 1 after just three days of training, which some experts claimed may have been the cause of the accident. They had flagged “human error”. A panel of experts appointed by BEST after the accident had recommended that private bus operators deploy a couple of e-buses to facilitate the training of drivers.