Dear prospective parents and parents of gurukul New Horizon. I just want you to be careful before you think of this school. I have a 2 and half year old daughter and I want her to go to school safe. This is not just another post written out of frustration like I find over the internet. This is about kids safety. On 8 Feb 2012 I was hit by one of the school buses due to reckless driving. As you all know volvo buses and BMTC buses are little reckless on the road but this school bus driver was driving like a drunk truck driver on a highway with kids below 3 years on board. He merged onto outer ring road with high speed from marathalli bridge and I was standing at least 300 meters away and still he managed to hit me. Near marathalli bridge there is a big sign board saying Accident prone zone go slow which I believe most of the drivers obey(barring those drunk tempo drivers).
I have insurance covered and its just a car it can be repaired but what if this guy hits some truck or any other vechile? What would happen to the kids inside. Can you imagine your kid getting killed on injured while going in school bus? That too you are paying huge amounts for these schools and you might have been paying over your neck to give best education to your kid. This though moved me and my wife a lot. Though we had really busy schedule at work and our kid does not even go to this school we still chased down this guy and asked what is this. He didnt say anything but laughing at us. There was a caretaker and she was giggling for asking him why you going so fast and why you not concerned about kids safety.
We thought its waste, these guys dont care about kids life so we called the admin. She was nice and sweet and told us she will take some action. We thought ok atleast we did something for those little kids safety. Now on 10 Feb 2012 my eyes caught up a speeding school bus. It was same guy and this time he was talking over cell phone while driving fast. Unless parents react I believe there wont be any action taken on these idiots. Hope some parent reads this.
If you are a prospective parent ask for safety and dont blindly believe them but look at any school driver on road to confirm. I have taken pictures of the bus driver and bus.