I wrote "nothing happens, really" because of these reasons. These have happend in the past; these will happen again. 1. The government may form a commission to look into the accident. 2. If so, without fail, the commission will blame the driver and the road conditions, as though that were news! 3. The bus-yatayat company will use its political and organisational muscle through these various Zonal Bus Entrepreneurs' Associations (which are basically cartels) to NOT pay out a single insurance rupee to the families of the deceased. [If you oppose these cartels, you might be killed. These are pretty-much Mafia-like organisations that funnel millions of money into all the major political parties!] 4.The families of the dead are likely to be too poor without a voice to press for their rights. 5. The media treats this sort of accident like a one-off event, and moves on to cover other accidents that will happen next week. 6. NGOs and advocates are NOT to be found pressing for highway safety in Nepal because donors don't give out money for that sort of 'relatively unglamorous' activism. 7. It's always the poor, the voiceless and the resourceless poor who do the dying in these accidents. It's very depressing, really. Depressing, because innocent people lose lives because of preventable causes, and we as a society can do NOTHING about that. oohi ashu