India, May 15 -- A routine work day turned into a tragedy for BEST bus conductor Shekhar Rawate, 52, who was crushed to death in a four-bus pile-up at Andheri west on Thursday.

The chain collision took place at around 1:15pm on the busy stretch between Amboli Naka and Rajkumar bus stop. Rawate was crushed between two buses and declared dead on arrival at the civic-run Cooper Hospital.

BEST sources said a fallen tree at Amboli Naka had caused a traffic jam in the surrounding localities, including on JP Road, where four BEST buses were stranded, back to back.

The first three buses, (Routes 266, Route 242 and Route 249) were single-deck, CNG buses operated by wet-lease operator, Mateshwari. The fourth was an electric bus manufactured by P...