Luxury bus on the way to scrap yard catches fire in Vellore

A 41-year-old operator escaped unhurt aft a luxury Volvo autobus caught occurrence connected the elevated corridor of Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 48) adjacent Poigai colony successful Vellore connected Thursday (May 14, 2026).

The constabulary said that operator K. Shanmugam was driving a betterment conveyance with a defunct luxury bus, which was classified arsenic scrap, erstwhile helium noticed fume from the rear broadside of the bus.

Immediately, the operator disconnected the betterment conveyance and the bus. Before firefighters from Vellore doused the fire, the autobus was wholly gutted.

The rescued idiosyncratic was sent to Government Taluk Hospital successful municipality for aesculapian checkup. The constabulary removed the charred conveyance from the carriageway to resume postulation question connected the stretch. A lawsuit has been registered. A probe is nether way.