The Nashik police arrested the absconding driver of the trailer truck that collided with a luxury sleeper bus killing 12 and leaving 43 injured. The bus was overloaded at the time of the mishap.

The bus, which was travelling to Mumbai from Pusad in Yavatmal district, was carrying far more passengers than it could accommodate. It had a capacity of 30 passengers, according to the initial passenger list, but 53 to 55 people were on board, as evidenced by the list of injured and dead, the cop stated in a report in this paper.