Four students, driver injured as school bus collides with lorry on Chennai-Bengaluru NH near Ambur
Agitated residents stage a road blockade demanding better safety measures on the stretch; police arrest lorry driver
Four students and the bus driver suffered injuries when a school bus collided with a container lorry on the Chennai-Bengaluru NH 48 near Ambur on Saturday, September 19, 2026. The victims were identified as I. Rohit (6) and M. Aswanth (7), both from Class 2, and I. Micher (12) and I. Jannet Juliya (12), both from Class 6. All were students of St. Joseph’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Pernambut town, Vellore district.
School bus driver P. Sugumar (47), native of Ambur, was driving the bus when the accident occurred. The lorry, en route from Chennai to Hosur, struck the school bus on the national highway around 8 a.m. Sugumar sustained injuries to his head and left leg, while the lorry driver, K. Shyam Sundar Misra (30), a native of Uttar Pradesh, also had minor injuries.
Emergency services, including 108 ambulances, rushed to the scene. The injured students and driver were admitted to the Government Taluk Hospital in Ambur town and their conditions are stable. Police have registered a case and arrested the lorry driver. Local residents blocked the national highway, demanding safety measures such as a subway or bridge at the intersection.
Tirupattur Superintendent of Police assured the agitated crowd that steps would be taken to enhance safety on the route, but traffic was halted for about two hours.
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