B’luru: Hong Kong-bound bride dies as cab rams into bus

Mangalore Today Network-1

Bengaluru: June 15, 2015: The average Bengalurean’s habit of stopping vehicle in the middle of the road to vent rage at another motorist cost a young bride her life, near Chikkajala on Ballari Road, past Saturday midnight.

Hong Kong resident Jagarthi Haresh Sadhwani, 25, was killed and her mother Priya suffered serious injuries when their cab hit a Volvo bus parked on the highway. Jagarthi, training to be a teacher, was returning to Hong Kong for her wedding.

It was drizzly and dark around 12.30am Sunday when the bus driver was arguing with the driver of a Santro who had attempted to overtake the bus, and scraped it. Blinded by the rain, the speeding cabbie didn’t notice the bus and drove into it. The driver, Honnesh, 35, escaped with injuries as he was wearing his seatbelt. Honnesh and Priya were rushed to hospital.

The mother-daughter duo was in the city as Priya was consulting a cosmetologist here. They were on their way to catch a flight back to Hong Kong. Police said Volvo driver Ashwaq Ahmed had stopped the vehicle instead of pulling over, and the cabbie was overspeeding. All three drivers were booked for negligent driving causing death under Section 304A of IPC. The drivers of the parked vehicles are to equally blame, an officer said.