Jammu, April 21 -- Death stared him right in the face, said 29-year-old Rakesh Kumar, who was sitting next to the driver as the bus slipped off the road and fell down the slope. Kumar, a pharmacist posted at Government Medical College, Jammu, had left his village of Nimbala around 8.30am and boarded the bus from Ramnagar Market, unaware that it would soon plunge into chaos. "I was sitting next to the driver. The bus was overspeeding... it was too fast," he said. Moments later, the bus swerved. "I saw the driver trying to hit the breaks, but nothing. Within no time, the bus was going down the slope. Death stared right in my face. I thought that is it," Kumar added. He said the accident could have been avoided had the driver been driving resp...