Mysuru: Carelessness of a goods auto driver left 35 students of Kasubanahalli Government Higher Primary and High School severely injured.

                                                     Injured student being shifted to hospital

It is said that the students were all traveling in the goods auto, when it toppled near Tetegowdanahalli Cross, Nanjangud Taluk here on Saturday.

The students were waiting for means of transportation after completing their classes. However, when the goods auto driver called them to board the goods auto luring them of charging them mere Rs 5 per person, the students could not resist the offer. As many as 35 students boarded the goods auto.

On reaching a u-pin curve on the way, the driver lost control over the vehicle, resulting in toppling of the vehicle where all the students suffered injuries. Immediately the passersby shifted the students to Nanjangud Hospital from there nearly 18 students were referred to KR Hospital in Mysuru.

Basappa, DDPI said “Nearly 35 students were travelling in the goods auto which got toppled near Tetegowdanahalli cross. All the students suffered injuries but their condition is out of danger. Among the injured 18 are undergoing treatments at KR Hospital while the rest are being treated at Nanjangud Government Hospital”. Majority of the students suffered leg and hand fractures.

Rakshit, ninth standard student who was travelling in the goods auto and suffered minor injuries said “The goods auto driver after seeing us said that he will charge just Rs 5 and hence forcibly took us to his auto. Nearly 35 of us belonging to same school studying in VII, VIII, IX and X got into the auto. While we were on the way to Tetegowdanahalli, just after a kilometer from our school, the auto driver failed to negotiate the curve resulting in toppling of the vehicle”.

Deputy Commissioner C Shikha, Superintendent of Police Abhinav Khare, DDPI Basappa and other officials visited KR Hospital. Nanjangud Rural Police arrested auto driver and have registered a case.