Mumbai BEST bus crash: Driver arrested

Mumbai: Police have arrested the driver of a BEST bus involved in an accident here, which claimed seven lives and left 42 others injured, and booked him for 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder', officials said on Tuesday.

As many as 22 vehicles were damaged in the incident which took place at around



9.30 pm on Monday on the SG Barve Marg in Kurla (West), they said.

The bus operated by the civic-run Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking hit several vehicles and pedestrians following which the driver, identified as Sanjay More, was detained.