Mumbai: 9 walkers hurt as drunk passenger grabs steering wheel of BEST bus during tiff with driver

Mumbai: 9 walkers hurt as drunk passenger grabs steering wheel of BEST bus during tiff with driver

Mumbai: 9 walkers hurt as drunk passenger grabs steering wheel of BEST bus during tiff with driver

MUMBAI: Nine pedestrians were injured, three of them seriously, when a drunk passenger grabbed the steering wheel of a BEST bus during an argument with its driver on Sunday evening, an official said.

The driver of the bus lost control over the wheel due to the passenger’s action and the vehicle knocked down pedestrians, cars and two-wheelers in the city’s Lalbaugh area, the official said.

Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking is the transport wing of Mumbai civic body BMC.