Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarth Sethia
Around five passengers traveling in a BMTC electric bus escaped narrowly when the driver lost control and rammed into a roadside electric pole near MC Junction on Magadi road on Thursday.
The bus was heading to Vijay Nagar from Yashwanthpur when the incident occurred at around 10.45 am.
The driver of the bus identified as Prashanth who was working on contract basis told the police that the accident was due to technical snag .
The breakes did not work due to the wet surface causing the bus to slide on the footpath and collided with the pole.
Soon the passengers got down and left the place while the BMTC officials technical team reached the spot and inspecting to ascertain the cause of accident.Luckily there were less traffic movement on the road .
The Magadi road traffic police visited the spot and pulled the bus to the roadside to allow the traffic movement and further investigation is on.
