A man riding a scooter was killed when he crashed into a bus while trying to overtake it from the left on Cathedral Road near Rabindra Sadan on Tuesday, police said.

Aftab Siddiqui, 32, was wearing a helmet when he collided with the bus on the Santragachhi-Dharmatala route and skidded on the road while trying to overtake the bus from the left, the police said.

“The accident occurred around 5.20pm. The bus driver did not realise someone had banged against the vehicle and he kept driving… the man came under the rear wheels of the bus,” a traffic police officer said.

Siddiqui, who hailed from Mathabhanga in Cooch Behar district, was declared dead at SSKM Hospital.

Officers of Hastings police station have seized the bus and arrested the driver. He has been booked for rash and negligent driving and causing death by negligence.

The number of two-wheelers has gone up during the lockdown, according to the traffic police.

“Everyone knows one should never overtake a vehicle from the left but in this case the scooterist did exactly that. The driver of the bus has claimed he could not see the scooter because of a blind spot on the vehicle’s left,” an officer of the traffic police’s fatal squad said.