India, Sept. 21 -- A Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) bus collided head-on with a private bus in Mulund West early in the morning on Sunday, resulting in minor injuries to the BEST bus driver. The accident occurred on the Thane-bound lane of Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) Road while traffic restrictions were in place to facilitate construction work on the Metro 4 corridor, and no traffic warden was posted on site to alert motorists about the restrictions, first responders in the incident told Hindustan Times.

This was the year's sixth accident at a Metro 4 construction site, and the fifth accident involving Mateswari Urban Transport Solutions, the wet lease operator which was running the BEST bus involved in the accident.

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