This story is from August 21, 2016

'Bus drivers end up getting beaten’

'Bus drivers end up getting beaten’
Nagpur:Keshav Sonawane, who has been driving tiny tots to and from school since 5 years now, uses the horn at every step and turn as the ultimate ‘precautionary measure’.
While his route passes via several narrow lanes and his logic of honking at every nook is understandable, he tends to overdo it, honking several times even on vacant roads lest ‘somebody comes in the way’.

Some of the honks were purposeful and required, at turning points, crossroads and while driving close to two-wheelers, but using the honk on vacant roads could have been avoided. \
Sonawane, who has driven a truck for almost 24 years before quitting it for a job at the school, recollects an accident where a girl on a scooter rammed into his bus from the side at Vitthal Nagar, near a minister’s house. “Even though it wasn’t my fault, I should have honked. My bosses asked me why I hadn’t.
During incidents like these, people don’t try to figure out whose fault it is, they always end up beating the bus driver,” he says. Sonawane drove with caution, and claimed his bus never crossed the speed of 40km/hr.
He completes four trips every day, two each in the morning and afternoon, covering an approximate 108 kilometres every day. On being asked about his seat belt, he tried to strap it, and realized it was broken.
(Reporting by Abha Goradia)
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