Three-year-old killed as bus hits bike

Mother injured, driver arrested

Three-year-old killed as bus hits bike

Mother injured, driver arrested

A three-year-old girl was killed while her mother was injured when the bike on which they were travelling was hit by a Blue-Line bus in Paschim Vihar area of West Delhi on Monday night.

Last ride: The infant fell from the bike when a Blue Line bus hit it from
behind. Pic/mid day

The girl, Ritika, was with her mother Sapna and father Mukesh when the bus hit them from behind at around 6.30 p.m. at a traffic intersection at Multan Nagar in Paschim Vihar.

"They were heading towards Nangloi side from Punjabi Bagh when a bus plying on route number 929 (between Mubarak Pur and Old Delhi Railway Station) hit their bike. The trio fell on the ground due to the impact and Ritika was injured," said the police official. They were rushed to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared the child brought dead while her mother is recuperating.

Police said that the driver of the bus has been arrested. The victim's family is a resident of Sultanpuri. The girl's grandfather Shyam alleged that police reached the spot two hours after they made a phone call informing them about the accident. The family lives Sultanpuri.

Bluelines more accident prone

Delhi government had some time backu00a0 informed the Delhi High Court that the private buses are six times more accident prone than state-run DTC buses.
u00a0"Blueline buses cause more accidents than other mode of transport. While one person gets killed per 180 DTC buses, the figure is alarmingly high for blueline buses which is around one death per 33 buses. It is six time more than DTC buses," senior advocate K T S Tulsi, appearing for the city government, submitted. The blueline operators, however, contended that the figure is misleading.

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