Bus hits bike, dumper runs over pillion rider after fall

Pune: A woman, riding pillion on a motorcycle, was run over by a dumper and her husband was injured when the couple fell of the two-wheeler after being rammed by a luxury bus near Mamabadevi Chowk at Camp on Monday night.
The junction connects vehicular traffic to Pune-Solapur-Satara roads. The Wanowrie police identified the deceased as Uzma Pathan (34), a homemaker from Saibabanagar in Kondhwa.Her husband, Mohsin Pathan (36), a tourist car operator, sustained injuries to his left hand and right leg.
Police on Wednesday said Uzma fell off the bike due to the dash by the bus and was run over by the dumper.
Though the dumper driver stopped after the accident, the man driving the bus fled the spot without giving information of the incident to police.
The police said the Pathan couple had visited Vimannagar for some work and stopped at a petrol pump near the Mamabadevi Chowk for filling fuel.
They were on way to Kondhwa and was passing via the garage when the bus hit their bike.
The police said such was the impact of the accident that Pathan fell off the bike on left side and his wife on the right. She came under the left rear wheels of the dumper moving in the same direction. She died on the spot.
The Sassoon General Hospital in its post-mortem report certified that the woman died because of multiple injuries.
Sub-inspector Bholenath Ahiwale from the Wanowrie police said ,“ We have booked the bus driver on the charge of causing the victim’s death due to negligence under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Motor Vehicles Act on Tuesday night after investigations revealed that he was responsible for the accident.”
He added, “Pathan has given registration number of the bus and we will arrest the driver and file charge sheet against him at the earliest.”
When TOI contacted Pathan over phone, he refused to offer his comments as he was in a state of shock since the accident.