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Published : 18 Apr 2025, 10:27 AM
There was a crash involving two vehicles. Then the top of the bus was torn off as it hit an expressway railing as the vehicle tried to flee the scene. Panicking over the fear of getting caught, the driver travelled nearly 5km with terrified passengers in tow to a darkened village.
No one was killed in the incident but several passengers were injured after they leapt from the moving bus. The incident has left everyone, including law enforcers speechless.
The incident occurred on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Sreenagar from 8pm to 10pm on Thursday.
Dewan Azad, station official for the Sreenagar Fire Service, said: “We have rescued eight people with injuries from different parts of the highway. They leapt off whenever the recklessly speeding bus slowed down. One of them cracked his skull. We haven’t been able to find one passenger who leapt off the bus.”
Horrific details of the incident emerged from the account of a passengers who was on board the “Barishal Expressway” bus.
They said the speeding bus first rammed a microbus and a covered van from the front in the Kamarkhola Rail Flyover of the expressway around 8pm. The front of the vehicle was damaged and the driver panicked when he saw police and army vehicles behind him.
“The top of the bus was torn off when we collided with the railing on the Samashpur Expressway. The frightened bus passengers requested him to stop the bus. But he did not. Instead, he kept moving for nearly 5km. Instead of getting on the Padma Bridge, the bus went down a road next to it. Some of the passengers leapt off the bus at this point.”
At one point, the bus entered a dark road in the Kumarbhog araea of Padma Bridge North Thana, the passenger said. Locals from the Siddiqia Madrasa blocked the path of the bus when they heard the screams of the passengers.
The bus driver managed to flee amid the hubbub.
There were about 20-25 passengers on the bus, the witness said.
The bus was seized from the Padma Bridge North Thana area, said Md Zakir Hossain, chief of the local police station.
A passenger critically injured in the incident was given first aid at the Sreenagar Upazila Health Complex and then sent to Dhaka while the others injured were released after they received first aid, according to Abdur Quader Zilani, chief of Hashara Highway Police Station.
“Legal action is being taken over the incident. A raid is being conducted to arrest the bus driver.”
