Chandigarh, April 20 -- An unidentified pedestrian, seemingly in his 40s, was run over by a speeding bus outside the inter-state bus terminus (ISBT) in Sector-43, Chandigarh, on Friday afternoon. The bus driver fled the scene soon after the accident.

An auto-rickshaw driver, Pankaj Singh, who witnessed the mishap, said that around 3.15 pm when he was waiting for passengers, he saw rashly driven blue bus come from Kajheri side and run over a man who was crossing the road.

Singh recalled that neither did the driver blow the horn when the pedestrian was ahead of him nor did he care to stop after hitting him. The accused kept looking back while escaping, he told the police.

The auto-rickshaw driver said he managed to jot down the bus regis...