The Medak District bus-train collision took place on the morning of 24 July 2014 at Masyapet in the Medak district of Telangana state in India. A bus ferrying at least 40 children to school collided with the Nanded-Hyderabad train at an unmanned level crossing.[1] Sixteen students, aged between three and fourteen, the bus driver and the cleaner were killed in the accident.[2] Twenty other children were taken to hospital in Kompally, near Hyderabad. Early reports said that the bus driver, Bhikshapati Goud, was on his cellphone at the time of the collision.