Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal
Bantwal, Feb 2: A ghastly accident between a private bus and an Omni car on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru national highway at Mani here on Friday February 2, resulting in serious injuries to the Omni driver. The accident occured while trying to avoid hitting a snake.
Mohan (32), a resident of Karaya near Uppinangady who was driving the Omni was suffered serious injuries in the accident.
Mohan was driving from Mangaluru towards Uppinangady while the bus was plying towards Mangaluru.
It is learnt that a snake suddenly appeared in front of another car, whose driver applied sudden brakes to avoid hitting the reptile. The bus driver who was just behind the car veered to the side in order to avoid ramming into the car, and in turn dashed head-on into Mohan's Omni which was moving in the opposite direction at that moment.
The Omni was completely mangled. Some of the parts even came under the bus' tyres.
Unfortunately, the snake whose life the car driver was trying to save was also injured and died on the spot.
Mohan was taken to a hospital in Mangaluru by 108 ambulance.
Vittal police arrived at the spot and registered a case.