Mumbai bus driver suffers heart attack at wheels, rams into vegetable shop

In a freak incident, a BEST bus driver suffered a heart attack while at the wheel and the vehicle rammed into a roadside vegetable shop in Chembur on Tuesday morning.

The incident happened when the BEST bus on Route No. 381 was being driven from Ghatkopar Depot to Tata Power Centre in Chembur. At around 10.45 am near Basant Park, the driver suffered a cardiac arrest and lost control of the steering.

"When the bus arrived near the Basant Park signal, the driver, Haridas Patil, suffered a heart attack and lost control of the vehicle... It rammed into the signal there," said BEST spokesperson.

There were about 10-12 passengers on the bus at the time of the incident. Nobody sustained any injuries in the accident.

Seeing Patil's precarious condition, he was rushed in a police vehicle to Rajawadi Hospital. His condition was reported to be stable.