Driver started operating e-bus
Hindustan Times Pune|December 11, 2024
MUMBAI: Sanjay More, 54, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) driver who has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder by the police for ramming into several pedestrians and 22 vehicles in Kurla on Monday, resulting in the death of seven and injury to 42, had transitioned from driving a manual bus to an electric bus after training for just three days.
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Driver started operating e-bus

More started driving the 12-metre-long Olectra-make e-bus - the longest in the BEST fleet - from December 1. Before this, he had driven a six-metre-long bus for four years.

Putting More behind the wheel of an e-bus within a limited time after driving a manual bus was in defiance of the transport utility's internal SOP, a BEST source told HT. Bus drivers need to go through six weeks of refresher training before they are allowed to scale up.

"However, this is just on paper. While new drivers get trained for 15 days, refresher courses go on for three days only, which More undertook," said a BEST official.

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