The National Road Safety Council has raised grave concerns on the findings by a pathologist on the stress level endured by bus drivers after a driver died behind the wheels.

NRSC Chief Executive Akapusi Tuifagalele said they will now meet with relevant stakeholders to discuss the stress levels endured by bus drivers who have the lives of people in their hands when they are driving.

Tuifagalele said there needs to be clear guidelines also set in the hours bus drivers are required to drive by ensuring adequate hours of rest for those who drive from morning till late in the evenings.

This comes after Raiwaqa Buses Limited was ordered to pay $24,000 in compensation to the family of a driver who died behind the steering wheel of their bus in December 2003.

Suva Magistrate Ajmal Gulab Khan highlighted in his ruling that the deceased Uday Raj was healthy and did not suffer from heart attacks and that the Pathologist's opinion was that the heart attack was a result of driving stress and psychological factors and that if it was not strenuous work, Raj may have survived.