Kolkata: a cyclist in the V sector died after he came to the bus blind point while the vehicle had just started moving after dropping passengers at SDF Crossing on Wednesday morning.
The CCTV footage showed the bus was silent when the cyclist pedaled very close to the bus from the right side and tried to move left while being very close to the vehicle.
The bus starts moving and cyclists are under the right front of the bus.
The accident occurred around 9:15 a.m.
when the Barasat-Botani Bus route had stopped in front of the V Fire Brigade sector.
Cyclist, subhas pramanik (35), a new city resident, died at a place when the bus wheel destroyed his skull.
“The driver was not really wrong for the accident.
We saw CCTV footage that he kept watching the mirror to check every passenger had come down before he started.
There are three cyclists behind the bus.
Someone stopped behind the bus, two other people followed the bus From the right.
While one of the cyclists moved along the right lane, Pramanik suddenly changed to the left of very close to the front of the bus which was very difficult for the driver to see, “said a police officer Bidhannagar.
The driver, however, panicked to see the man died and escaped from the place when the police confiscated a vehicle.
He was arrested at night.
According to the police, the size of the blind zone the bus rates make it difficult to constantly have a point of view of 360 °, which makes it necessary for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists to find out the three different blind spots on the bus – both parties are closer to the cabin Driver, the back and the front near the tire.
As proven in Wednesday’s case, the bus blind point is far greater than the blind point of the car driver because of the driver’s height.
The higher the short story, the fewer he saw in front of the vehicle.
“It’s very important that when passing next to the bus, someone must maintain at least 10 feet 15 feet from the front of the bus,” said an officer.