No emergency exits in luxury buses

CHENNAI: Luxury buses must not only have emergency exits, they must also mention that upfront within the vehicles. Two words — Emergency Exit — in red letters must be written inside the bus clearly specifying where it is located. However, a quick check by Express found the words missing in some State Transport Corporation buses.A senior transport department official agreed that the Motor Vehicles Act makes emergency exits mandatory in ghat, omni and Express buses. “We will soon take up the issue with representatives of the transport corporation,” he assured.He, however, could not explain how buses without emergency exits were given permission in the first place, though he made it clear that Tamil Nadu does not give permissions for sleeper coaches — the bus that turned into an inferno near Vellore was one such coach.