Four students, driver injured as school bus collides with lorry on Chennai-Bengaluru NH near Ambur

Four students of a private higher secondary school and a driver were injured after the school bus they were travelling in was hit by a container lorry on the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway (NH 48) at Vadaputhupatti village, around two kilometres from Ambur town in Tirupattur district on Saturday (September 19, 2026), affecting traffic movement on the route.

The injured students were identified as I. Rohit (6) and M. Aswanth (7), both Class 2 students, and I. Micher (12) and I. Jannet Juliya (12), both studying in Class 6. All of them belong to Vadaputhupatti village and are students of St. Joseph’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Pernambut town in Vellore district.