Overview
- A sleeper bus traveling from Kanpur to Indore lost control on the Bhopal bypass flyover at Biaora on Friday, struck the safety wall and left four people dead and 11 injured.
- One of the dead was Bengaluru cyber inspector Ravi K B, who had stayed in Madhya Pradesh with a Southeast CEN police team to pursue a suspect in a cybercrime case.
- Local residents and first responders pulled passengers from the wreck and all injured were taken to Civil Hospital, Biaora, with several critically hurt patients referred to hospitals in Bhopal for advanced care.
- Rajgarh police say the driver failed to negotiate a sharp curve and that high speed may have caused the mishap, and officials have opened an investigation into the crash and the flyover design.
- Local leaders have called for immediate safety fixes such as warning signs and speed breakers at the curve and the crash may prompt tighter enforcement of speed limits on the bypass.