Students escape unhurt in school bus accident near Coimbatore

Four students escaped unhurt aft a autobus of a backstage schoolhouse met with an mishap astatine Karumathampatti adjacent Coimbatore connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025).

The constabulary said the autobus progressive successful the mishap belonged to Sri Chaitanya Techno School astatine Neelambur.

The mishap occurred connected Wednesday greeting erstwhile the autobus was plying with 4 students connected the Salem-Kochi road adjacent Karumathampatti, with Maheswaran of Elachipalayam astatine the wheel. According to the police, the autobus collided with a divider separating the road from a work roadworthy arsenic the operator tried to navigate the conveyance onto the work road.

Locals and different motorists attended to the students, who were transported to the schoolhouse connected different bus. The Karumathampatti constabulary reached the spot and barricaded the autobus progressive successful the accident.

Some of the locals raised concerns connected the attraction of the bus, citing its worn-out tyres. They alleged the autobus skidded connected the bedewed roadworthy owed to this.

An authoritative from the school, however, claimed that each buses of the instauration were maintained decently with capable checks astatine regular intervals. The authoritative added that the bus, which bore the sanction of a college, was taken implicit by the school.

District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar said allegations connected mediocre attraction of the autobus would beryllium investigated.