Overview

• At around 3:10 pm on August 18, a BEST bus on route A-174 in Wadala struck a 38-year-old woman and her eight-year-old son near the Wadala Church bus stop.
• The boy, Anthony Selveraj, was fatally injured when the bus’s front left tyre ran over his head and was pronounced dead at KEM Hospital at 3:40 pm.
• His mother, Leoba Selveraj, sustained severe shoulder and leg trauma and died during treatment at Sion Hospital at 4:25 pm.
• The vehicle was operated under a wet-lease by SMTATPL (Daga Group) with driver Bapurao Shivaji Nagbone and conductor Anil Maruti Sakhare.
• Police have filed a case under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and Motor Vehicles Act as investigators examine driver training and contract oversight following a series of recent fatal BEST wet-lease bus collisions.