pune nine of the 42 women and other passengers out on an ashtavinayak tour in a private bus were injured when it turned on its side and fell into a ditch on the phulgaontulapur road off puneahmednagar highway around 745am on sundaylater five of the injured women had to endure another accident when an ambulance carrying them to a hospital met with a similar mishap near lonikandan ashtavinayak tour refers to a pilgrimage to the eight temples mostly in pune and adjoining districts having eight distinct idols of ganesh in a preascertained sequence the bus was going to ozar one of these eight temples from another temple at lenyadri in junnar tehsil of pune district police saidsenior inspector gajanan pawar of the loni kand police said the condition of all the injured women who suffered internal injuries was stable and out of danger they were discharged from hospitals on sunday evening we have registered a case of rash and negligent driving against the bus and the ambulance drivers following a complaint by chitra khare 48 one of the victims there were 48 passengers in the bus including three children and three menresidents of the area and the police rescued the women from the bus our team summoned an ambulance and five of the injured women were being taken to a hospital when the ambulance also met with an accident senior inspector pawar saidcomplainant khare told toi an officerbearer of a political party in yerawada had organised the ashtavinayaka tour for the women from yerawada some of us from shaniwar peth and sadashiv peth joined the tour which started early on saturday morning from yerawada and we visited four of the eight temples we were supposed to visit the temples at lenyadri and ozar on sunday we all stayed in a school at phulgoan and boarded the bus which got stuck in a traffic jam soon after driving out of the institution the bus driver stepped up the speed after passing through the jam but lost control over the vehicle the bus veered off the road and went into the ditch alongside the road before turning on its sidekhare said i was moved into the ambulance which started heading to a nearby hospital after travelling about 500 metres the ambulance summoned to the spot turned on its side and went into the ditch near the roadshe added we were again rescued thankfully none of us suffered any major injuries our stars were bright as we were saved from backtoback accidents in a span of just five minutes