Passers-by stop to look at the damaged bus

A driver showed great presence of mind when the brakes of the school bus he was driving failed, by taking it onto a footpath, from where it slowly crashed into street lights and then into a tree and stopped, averting a major tragedy. On Wednesday, around 1.30 pm, when the bus of Ryan International School, Goregaon, was dropping children home, its brakes failed in front of Oberoi Mall. The quick-thinking driver, Kisan Gaikwad, drove it onto a footpath. Nobody was injured in the incident and another bus was immediately arranged to drop the children home.