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UK Bus Company Fined £2.3 Million For Fatal Crash By Indian-origin Driver

The case is pertaining to Coventry bus crash that killed seven-year-old passenger Rowan Fitzgerald and 76-year-old pedestrian Dora Hancox in October 2015. Both died when a double-decker bus, driven by Kailash Chander, who was then aged 77, careered out of control and crashed into Sainsbury’s supermarket (Photo Credit: West Midlands Police).

By: Radhakrishna N S

A bus company in the UK has been fined £2.3 million on Tuesday (27) for significant health and safety failings which permitted a fatigued Indian-origin driver Kailash Chander to drive the bus that ended in a crash causing the deaths of two people. The case is pertaining to Coventry bus crash that killed seven-year-old passenger Rowan Fitzgerald and 76-year-old pedestrian Dora Hancox in October 2015. Both died when a double-decker bus, driven by Kailash Chander, who was then aged 77, careered out of control and crashed into Sainsbury’s supermarket. Midland Red South Limited pleaded guilty to health and safety offences…

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