Mumbai: Evening rush-hour traffic ground to a halt on Western Express Highway on Monday after a wet-lease BEST bus grazed a private vehicle and crashed into a concrete Metro pillar in Goregaon East, leaving two passengers seriously injured.Vanrai Police lodged a case of rash and negligent driving against the bus driver following a complaint from the driver of the damaged private vehicle. Eyewitnesses said he lost control while negotiating a right turn beneath the Goregaon flyover near Oberoi Mall. The impact with the pillar smashed the front cabin of the bus.Onlookers and traffic police personnel rushed the two passengers who were injured—Rajendra Sonawane (58), an employee attached to BEST’s engineering department, and Mangesh Modalekar (57)—to Trauma Care Centre in Jogeshwari East. An official said the two required multiple stitches. Hospital authorities said both were stabilised, kept under observation, and subsequently discharged late on Monday.The accident choked vehicle movement across the critical northern arterial junction for over an hour.
