Clusters of people stood at bus stops watching or gesticulating as overloaded buses with fogged windows rumbled past without stopping.

He also acknowledged that there may have been a failure on part of the motorway authorities in properly checking the overloaded bus and remarked that an investigation was being conducted.

Fifteen minutes later two overloaded buses groaned up the hill, with Mr. Pole's car between them and a police escort.

She crawled along behind an overloaded bus that belched a steady blue cloud of diesel fumes over the Renault.

Some passengers on overloaded buses hold on to anything that protrudes from the sides.

In Assam, 51 wedding guests died when their overloaded bus skidded into a deep canal, the police said.

A heavily-loaded truck carrying 80 people collided with an overloaded bus carrying 95 people on National Highway 1, about six kilometers from Boromo.

In July 2005, the medical resources of that clinic were overwhelmed when an overloaded bus on the way to market veered off the road and tumbled 200 metres down the hillside.

Roads are extremely crowded, particularly in the cities, with bicycle rickshaws, three-wheeled mini-taxis (CNGs), cars, overloaded buses, and trucks.

Fearing for his life, Mr. Gussman turned aside and let the bus pass, on the assumption, he said, "that an overloaded bus wouldn't stop any better than it would start."