Overview
- Police are reviewing petrol-pump CCTV and dashcam videos after footage showed the bike initially fell near the divider, not in the roadway.
- Skid-mark positions cited by Kurnool police indicate the motorcycle moved after the first crash, pointing to the involvement of a separate bus.
- Officers say the Kaveri bus was the 15th vehicle to pass, hit the motorbike, and dragged it about 300 meters before the bike’s fuel tank ignited.
- Two people are booked — driver M. Lakshmaiah, now in judicial custody, and owner Vemuri Vinod Kumar — while the second driver who aided rescues has not been charged.
- Police identified the rider as Shiva Shankar, alleged to have been drunk and killed at the scene, while pillion passenger Yerri Swamy survived.