Kasargod: School kids have narrow escape as bus rolls down into rly track

Kasargod: School kids have narrow escape as bus rolls down into rly track

Mangalore Today News Network

 Kasargod, March 6, 2013 :  Several students of the Dhakheerath English Medium Higher Secondary School at Talangere near here had a narrow escape when their school bus rolled down and plunged into a railway track below minutes before they could board the bus.

The mishap took place when the driver had parked the vehicle near the school compound and had been to the school premises to get the children. It is suspected that the handbrake was not in position resulting in the vehicle moving backward and plunging into the railway track which was 50 feet below. 

Fortunately no one was in the vehicle when the mishap took place.

The fire service and police personnel who rushed to the spot, cleared the railway track.