Overview

• About 20 students were taken out through the rear emergency exit after the bus tilted on the Panathur–Balagere Road in east Bengaluru.
• Traffic police, passers-by and the driver of another bus helped pull the children to safety, and no injuries were reported.
• Dashcam footage from a vehicle behind the bus showed it slowly leaning as a wheel sank into a waterlogged crater, and the video spread widely online.
• Residents describe repeated complaints about incomplete drains and chronic waterlogging on the stretch despite prior inspection by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and parents urged schools to escalate the issue.
• Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has cited roughly 10,000 city potholes with thousands filled, yet a separate NH‑66 fatality near Kulur this week prompted a police case and notices to NHAI officials.