Overview
- The bus carrying students and teachers from Kodakara to Vizhinjam overturned around 3:30 a.m. on a National Highway service road near Kallambalam.
- At least 17 passengers were injured, and by evening all except a teacher and a student with serious injuries had been discharged.
- Local residents, police, and Fire and Rescue Services rescued passengers and took them to nearby hospitals for treatment.
- The vehicle hit roadside fencing and fell into a compound, causing minor damage to a house, and the family living there was unharmed.
- Forty-one students and two teachers from the Sahrdaya Institute of Management Studies were traveling on a study visit to the Vizhinjam international seaport.