Drunk Class 12 Boy Takes a Bus By Himself, Crashes it into a House

A 19-year-old boy, reportedly in an inebriated state, drove a Haryana Roadways bus from Mirchpur village of Hisar district and crashed into a house at Rajpura Bhain village of Jind district on Wednesday,

The accused, identified as Praveen, was on his way back home after getting drunk when he found the bus parked in his village. He got on the bus, started it with a motorcycle key, and drove it towards Jind.

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He lost control of it near Rajpura Bhain village and crashed the bus into a house. It took the villagers three hours to pull Praveen out of the bus and take him to a hospital. They said they were jolted out of their sleep by the sound of a crash around 1am and rushed to the spot to find the bus crashed into a house. They said a house and a shop were damaged due to the collision.

Jitender Yadav, work manager of the Hisar unit of Haryana Roadways, said they had reported bus theft to Mirchpur police and initiated a departmental inquiry against the bus driver and conductor for leaving the bus unattended.