Six people died and around 20 were injured as a private bus rammed into a parked truck on a highway in Gujarat’s Vadodara district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
The accident occurred near Kotambi village on the Vadodara-Halol highway at around 4 am.
The luxury bus, heading from Rajasthan to Surat in Gujarat, crashed into the rear side of the truck, Vadodara Superintendent of Police Sushil Agrawal said.
The truck had been parked on the roadside as its driver was checking tyre pressure when the speeding bus hit it, he said.
“The impact of the collision was severe, and the front portion of the bus was completely crushed. The injured were shifted to hospitals," Agrawal said.
A majority of the passengers travelling in the bus were from Rajasthan, the official said.
Personnel from the Jarod police station in Vadodara rural rushed to the spot and started rescue operations.
Considering the extent of damage to the bus, teams of the National Disaster Response Force were also called to assist in the rescue efforts, the SP said, adding that further investigation was under way.
