BENGALURU: Fourteen people, including four women, sustained injuries when a BMTC bus toppled on West of Chord Road in Rajajinagar 1st Block on Wednesday morning. The driver said he was trying to avoid ramming a biker when the accident occurred.The bus (route no. 180) was plying from KHB Colony, off Magadi Road, to Kaval Byrasandra around 11am with around 20 passengers when it fell on its side after hitting a flyover wall. According to driver Ninge Gowda, the vehicle was about to climb the flyover on West of Chord Road when he noticed a biker, who overtook the bus from the left and swerved to the right. Trying to save the biker from coming under the bus wheels, Ningegowda claimed that he ended up crashing into the flyover wall. Due to the massive impact, the bus overturned in the middle of the road.“We have begun a probe and will find out what caused the accident,” traffic police said. “Fourteen people, including bus driver Ningegowda and conductor Vijay Kumar, sustained injuries, mostly minor. Only a 72-year-old woman called Mohanambike, from RT Nagar, suffered a severe head injury and is in ICU at Fortis Hospital,” said Soumyalatha SK, deputy commissioner of police, traffic (west).The injured passengers and BMTC staffers were rushed to Fortis and KC General hospitals. “Twelve patients were rushed to our facility. Of them, one has been shifted to ICU, another requires surgery, five have been shifted to the ward and the rest have been discharged,” said a spokesperson of Fortis Hospital, Rajajinagar. Two of the injured were treated as out patients at KC General Hospital in Malleswaram.Apart from Mohanambike, other passengers who sustained injuries are Arogya Swamy, 56, of Yelahanka; Darshan A, 19, and his father Aaran Moji M, 62, residents of Adarsha Nagar; Prabhakar TS, 25, of Chitradurga; Krishna Murthy, 50, of Kurubarahalli; Sushmitha Nataraju, 24, of Rajajinagar, Ambika CN, 30, of HRBR Layout; Chikkegowda M, 45, of Mahalakshmi Layout; Kamala S, 43, of Shankaramutt area; Jayakumar J, 25, of Doddaballapura and Nanjappa N, 68, of RT Nagar.Traffic police said the accident triggered a massive traffic jam on West of Chord Road and surrounding roads for nearly an hour. Additional traffic cops were deployed to decongest the area. The bus was lifted with a crane and seized.

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