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Police confirmed this bus was racing against another state bus and was trying to overtake a car when it strayed into the other flank, leading to the collision.Phoolbagan police arrested the state bus driver. The state bus grazed the school bus’s right front corner, shattering the windshield and the headlamps.“I saw the bus speeding straight at me. Drivers of both buses tried to swerve to their left to avoid collision but the school bus driver did not have much room to his left. KOLKATA: A state bus racing against another on a nearempty Maniktala Main Road early on Wednesday morning hit a school bus ferrying students to DPS Ruby Park, leaving 14 children injured — most with facial wounds — and all of them in severe trauma.The school bus heading towards Kankurgachhi from Maniktala had just crossed the underpass below the railway bridge when it came face to face with a state bus that was trying to overtake a car after having overtaken another state bus. It did veer left but not soon enough to avoid collision,” school bus driver Murari Das recounted.Das escaped by a whisker but many of his young passengers were not so lucky..