Did the bike rider Shivshankar ram into the private bus at Kurnool or did the bus run over the bike lying on the road after being hit by an unidentified vehicle?

That is the crucial question in the tragic Kurnool bus accident that snuffed out 19 lives in the early hours of Friday on Kurnool-Hyderabad National Highway No. 44. The tyre, skid, scratch marks on the nearly 170-metre stretch from the point where the bike rider was found dead to point of the stationary bus (in completely gutted stage) are throwing up different possibilities.

While the Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Vangalapudi Anitha said that “an oncoming bike rider” collided against the bus, some police officers believe that was not the case. They surmise that the bus ran over the bike or hit the bike ‘which was already lyin

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