Page 15 - Road Accident

Bus falls few feet after part of Mandi-Shimla highway caves in, 4 injured

Four passengers of a Himachal Roadways Transport Corporation bus were injured after it fell a few feet as a portion of the Mandi-Shimla highway caved in on Saturday, officials said. The bus with 12 passengers on board was on its way to Shimla from Mandi when a part of the road caved in near Kango in Mandi district in the early hours of Saturday, they said. The bus fell a few feet, landing on its tyres and was not buried in the debris, they added. Himachal Roadways Transport Corporation (HRTC) Managing Director Rohan Chand Thakur said the four injured passengers have been admitted to a hospital. According to State Emergency Operation Centre data, 107 people have died in road accidents in Himachal Pradesh during the monsoon season since June 24. The Shimla-Kalka and the Manali-Chandigarh national highways were blocked near Koti and Pandoh, respectively, following landslides triggered by intermittent rain. A total 395 roads are blocked in the state, officials said.

PM announces Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia to kin of deceased in Ahmedabad accident

"An ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from PMNRF will be given to the next of kin of each deceased. The injured would be given Rs 50,000," he added in his tweet

4 killed in two separate incidents involving apple-laden trucks in Shimla

Four people were crushed by apple-laden trucks in two separate road incidents in Shimla, police said on Wednesday. Two people were crushed to death coming under a truck laden with apples in Chaila area of Shimla district, police said. The incident happened Tuesday evening when the truck from Narkanda was going outside the state taking the Rajgarh-Solan road. The truck, reportedly by mistake, veered towards Chaila market instead of the SainjRajgarh road and going out of control, hit four vehicles, turned turtle, and crushed two people, one of whom was a woman. According to preliminary investigations by police, a brake failure led to the accident. The bodies were extracted with the help of an excavator and sent for post mortem to the Civil Hospital in Theog, police said. A case has been registered and investigations are underway, they said. In the second incident, driver of another apple-laden truck coming from Theog lost control over the vehicle near Dhalli in the outskirts of Shi

US: Bus filled with teen campers crashes on winding highway, injuring 11

A school bus carrying teenage campers rolled over on a winding Idaho highway on Friday afternoon, injuring 11 people, the Idaho State Police said. Seven of those hurt had critical injuries and four had non-critical injuries, according to an ISP news release. The Boise County Coroner's office had not received any reports of fatalities as of 5:45 pm, coroner's investigator Noah Webster said. The bus was carrying about 30 campers and staff back to Boise from the Treasure Valley YMCA's camp at Horsethief Reservoir. All of the teens on the bus were between 13 and 18 years old, according to ISP. They were all taken to area hospitals to be checked out, the ISP said. The Valley County Sheriff's Office said they were notified of the crash about 3 pm, and several law enforcement and emergency medical agencies responded. Treasure Valley YMCA Director David Duro was not immediately able to comment on the crash. "We are in the middle of managing parents and children, so I do not have an update

1 killed, 2 injured after truck overturns on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

A person was killed and two others received injuries when a speeding glass-laden truck overturned after hitting another truck on Mumbai-Pune Expressway in Maharashtra's Raigad district in the wee hours of Thursday, police said. Vehicular movement on a Mumbai-bound lane was affected for a few hours it was closed between 5.30 am to 8.30 am to remove the truck and the glass material scattered on the road, an official said. The accident took place when the truck carrying the glass material rammed into another truck from its rear side and then overturned on the expressway in Khopoli area, he said. Three persons received serious injuries and were taken to hospital. One of them, identified as Sadanand Patil (43), driver of the glass-laden truck, succumbed to injuries during treatment, the official said. The Mumbai-bound lane was opened for traffic after 8.30 am and the vehicular movement was slow, he said.

8 die every hour in road accidents; speeding, mobile phone use prime causes

While this figure is not the highest globally, it is still not the lowest

5 killed, 20 injured as 2 buses collide in Maharashtra's Buldhana district

Five persons, including two women, were killed and 20 others injured after two private buses collided in the early hours of Saturday in Maharashtra's Buldhana district, a police official said. The accident occurred around 2.30 am on a flyover in Malkapur town in the district, he said. According to the official, one of the buses involved in the accident was on its way to Hingoli after Amarnath Yatra, while the other private bus was going towards Nashik. The bus going towards Nashik tried to overtake a truck and ended up coming in front of the second bus, resulting in a collision, he said. Five persons, including two women, were killed and 20 were injured, the official said. Senior district police officials reached the spot and rushed the injured to a nearby hospital. The accident disrupted traffic on the road for some time, he added.

Three feared dead as pickup truck falls into Sutlej in Himachal Pradesh

Three people are feared dead after the pickup truck in which they were travelling veered off the road and fell into the Sutlej river in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, police said on Thursday. One person was injured in the incident that took place on Wednesday night, they said. The pickup truck was carrying four people, all residents of Jani village, when it fell into the river on Jani link road in the Nichar area, police said. Driver Jeevan Singh, his wife Champa Devi and another woman Anita Kumar were swept away in the river while Rajkumari fell out of the rolling vehicle and got stuck in the hills, they said. The injured is undergoing treatment at a hospital. The cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained, they said.

9 killed as speeding car ploughs into crowd at accident site in Ahmedabad

At least nine persons were killed and around 10 others injured when a speeding car ploughed into a crowd gathered at an accident site on a bridge in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city on Thursday, police said. A constable and a Home Guard jawan, who reached the spot after the first accident of a collision involving two vehicles, were among those killed in the incident, they said. The accident took place at around 1 am at ISKCON bridge on the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway in Satellite area of the city when the Jaguar car moving at a very high speed ploughed into a crowd gathered there, the police said. "At around 1 am, a Thar (SUV) collided with a truck at ISKCON Bridge on SG Highway. After receiving information about the accident, local traffic police and a Home Guard jawan reached the spot to manage the traffic and handle the situation. Out of curiosity, several bystanders also gathered at the spot to check what had happened," Satellite police station inspector K Y Vyas said. "When they were

Road accident in J-K's Ganderbal district leaves 8 CRPF personnel injured

Eight CRPF personnel were injured on Sunday when their vehicle rolled down the road into Sindh nallah in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were on way to the shrine of Amarnath via the Baltal route when the accident took place in the early hours of the day, they said. The injured personnel were rescued and taken to the Baltal base camp hospital, they added.

Five injured as car carrying pilgrims hits road divider in J-K's Udhampur

A car carrying Amarnath pilgrims hit a road divider in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, leaving five people injured, a police official said. The pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh were on their way to the Baltal base camp in Ganderbal district when the driver of their vehicle lost control and hit the road divider at Samroli along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway around 6.15 am, the official said. The injured pilgrims and the driver of the vehicle have been admitted to a hospital, the official said, adding their condition was stated to be stable.

7 killed, 15 injured after bus falls into canal in Andhra's Prakasam

The bus was on its way from to Kakinada

6 dead in school bus-SUV crash on Delhi-Meerut expressway near Ghaziabad

The accident took place on NH-9 near the Crossing Republic Police Station

Former Indian cricketer Praveen Kumar escapes unhurt in major accident

Kumar's Land Rover Defender collided with a speeding canter near the commissioner's residence in Meerut and his son was with him during the accident

Massive rocks crush three cars on Nagaland highway during landslide

The heavy boulders sliding down from the mountain reduced three cars to heaps of metal, resulting in the death of two persons while injuring three others

5 killed, including four minors as truck falls into river in MP's Datia

Four minors and a woman were killed and several others injured when a truck in which they were travelling overturned and fell into a river in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district on Wednesday, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said. The accident took place in the wee hours near Buhara village in Datia district when some people from Gwalior were going to Jatara in Tikamgarh district for a marriage ceremony, Mishra told reporters. The truck carrying the people, belonging to Khatik community, overturned and fell into the Buhara river, he said. A 65-year-old woman, a boy aged 15 and three other children were killed in the accident, he said. Many others were injured. Most of them were rescued and undergoing treatment in hospital, the minister said. Rescue operation was underway at the spot, he added.

Amit Shah expresses anguish over Odisha road accident that killed 12 people

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday expressed anguish over a road accident in Odisha that killed 12 people in a wedding party and said his thoughts are with the victims' family members. Twelve members of a wedding party were killed and seven injured after their bus collided head-on with another in Odisha's Ganjam district. "Anguished by the tragic road accident in Digapahandi (Odisha) that claimed precious lives. In this hour of grief, my thoughts are with their family members. May the Almighty give them the strength to bear this. I also pray for the speedy recovery of the injured," Shah said in a tweet. The accident occurred late on Sunday near the Digapahandi area on the Berhampur-Taptapani Road when the bus ferrying the wedding party collided with another passenger vehicle, Superintendent of Police (Berhampur) Saravana Vivek M said. The group was returning to Khandadeuli after attending a wedding ceremony in Berhampur when the accident occurred.

12 killed, several injured in bus accident in Odisha's Ganjam district

District Magistrate of Ganjam Dibya Jyoti Parida said that the injured were rushed to the MKCG Medical College for treatment

Seven killed, 42 injured in bus collision in Pakistan's Sindh province

At least seven people were killed and 42 others injured in a collision between two passenger buses in the Sindh province of Pakistan on Sunday, officials said. Benazirabad Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Mohammad Younis Chandio said the accident took place on the Mehran Highway near Nawabshah around 4 am when two passenger buses en route from Karachi and Peshawar collided with each other. The injured are being treated at the People's University of Medical and Health Sciences, Dawn News quoted him as saying. According to the DIGP, the collision occurred because of the high speed of the vehicles. He added that the Mehran Highway was closed to traffic after the accident and vehicles were diverted towards the National Highway. Earlier this month, at least 13 people, including five women, were killed and 31 others injured when a bus veered off the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway and overturned near Kallar Kahar. Traffic accidents are common in Pakistan due to poor maintenance of r

Two killed, at least 30 injured as two buses collide head-on in Tamil Nadu

Two persons were killed and at least 30 injured in a head-on collision involving two private buses in Cuddalore district on Monday, police said. The front portion of the two vehicles were completely damaged in the accident at Melpattampakkam in Panruti. Immediately after the mishap, members of the public and police rushed to the spot and helped rush the injured to hospital. Police said the exact cause of the accident was being probed. Initial reports indicated that the front tyre of one of the buses burst leading to the driver losing control of the vehicle as a result of which it collided into a bus coming in the opposite direction, police added. Senior district revenue and police officials rushed to Melpattampakkam to help the injured.