Mangalore: A two-wheeler rider escaped the jaws of death by a hair’s breadth after his vehicle came under a private bus near Valencia in Mangalore on the afternoon of May 14, Monday. The bus was on way to Shaktinagar when the mishap took place.

The accident is learnt to have taken place when a driving school vehicle with a learner on the steering, applied brake suddenly. The two-wheeler rider was however saved as he fell on the other side of the road and suffered only some minor injuries.