Delhi bus accident: Driver detained after passengers claim he was speeding, drunk driving

NEW DELHI: As two people lost their lives, and 23 others were injured after a tourist sleeper bus overturned in Delhi's Karol Bagh area early Wednesday, several passengers alleged that the driver was intoxicated and driving at high speed at the time of the accident.

The driver, identified as 26-year-old Pankaj Kumar from Rajasthan's Alwar, has been detained and is currently undergoing treatment at Lady Hardinge Medical College.

According to officials, a PCR call was received at around 1.05 a.m. at Karol Bagh Police Station reporting that a sleeper bus had overturned near the Jhandewalan Metro Station and Hanuman Mandir in the Chambery area, with multiple passengers injured.

The bus, bearing registration number RJ-14PE-5065, was a tourist sleeper coach with a capacity of around 70 passengers. It was travelling from Jaipur to Fatehpuri in Delhi's Sadar Bazar area and had approximately 30 passengers on board at the time of the incident.

Passengers who survived the accident described a chaotic sequence of events leading up to the crash.