In a shocking piece of news, a 32-year-old techie in Chennai has on Monday died in Anna Salai after he lost his balance due to a pothole and got killed by a city bus. The incident had stunned fellow commuters and footage recorded by a CCTV camera in the vicinity had shown what had happened. The police had launched an investigation and arrested the driver of the government bus.
According to reports, 32-year-old Mohammad Yunus was riding his two-wheeler on Monday and he was on his way to the office. When he crossed the Little mount area in Saidapet, he lost his balance due to a pothole and within a fraction of seconds, he fell under a government bus that was riding next to him and eventually died. The incident had taken place at around 8.45 am on Monday and the city bus was travelling from Besant Nagar to Vadapalani.
The CCTV footage shows that Yunus had lost the balance suddenly after hitting a pothole and his two-wheeler had collided with the city bus running on his left. Yunus fell under the bus and he was crushed by the rear wheel and died on the spot. The shocking incident had startled the people on the spot and after knowing the development, the Guindy traffic police had rushed to the spot and the officials had recovered the CCTV footage for further investigation.
Yunus was a resident of Nanganallur, Chennai and worked as a software engineer at a private company in the city. His body was sent to Royapettah Government Hospital for an autopsy and the government bus driver was arrested. A case has been booked against the driver under the sections of the Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicle Act for causing death due to negligence and rash driving.
It must be noted that Yunus was seen wearing the helmet during the incident and the reports say that the pothole has caused due to heavy rains. After the accident, the Tamil Nadu state highway department, which maintains the road where the accident took place, had filled the pothole with sand. The department has on Tuesday morning closed all the potholes in the Anna Salai stretch with concrete and installed barricades on them as a precautionary measure.
Really Sad! #Pothole death in Chennai. Just 32 yrs old Md Younis, a software Engineer lost balance of his bike when he hit a pothole and came under a government bus. pic.twitter.com/v4bVq2fJOJ
— Kirandeep (@raydeep) November 1, 2021
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