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The Highway Safety Patrol (HSP) has been penalising, on an average, 200-300 vehicle users every day for speeding along the 91km Pune-Mumbai expressway ever since the Union and state governments relaxed the lockdown on June 1. Most of the vehicles found speeding are four-wheelers. HSP officials said they have issued e-challans to over 16,000 vehicles for a […]

Five members of a family were killed and another injured when the driver of the car in which they were travelling lost control and rammed into a truck on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Firozabad district early on Saturday, police said. “Those in the car were coming from Delhi and heading towards Prayagraj when the mishap […]

INDORE: Despite lockdown, Indore district witnessed an increase in accidental cases in month of May than April. According to 108 ambulance services record of district, accidental cases in district went up to 184 in May from 68 cases in April. However, overall calls from patients in need of ambulance decreased. The overall calls decreased from 1460 […]

AGRA: Four people were killed in two different road accidents in the past 24 hours, one in Agra, the other in Etah. At around noon, a truck jumped into the service lane of Agra-Gwalior highway after the driver lost control on the Southern Bypass flyover, which falls under Malpura police station limits. According to police, one unidentified charred […]

BHOPAL: “I feel suffocated if I wear helmet over the mask.” “What should I wear —mask or helmet?” “I have heard that coronavirus can survive for more than 14 hours on any solid surface, so wearing helmet is not safe.” These are the excuses that Bhopalis have given traffic police when they were stopped at […]

PATIALA: Two persons lost their lives while three women were seriously injured in a road accident after two cars collided at Patiala-Chandigarh road. The accident took place near Kauli village of Patiala district on Sunday afternoon between an Alto car and a Swift desire. The police revealed that both the drivers of the cars had […]

The ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has decided to release Rs 7,500-Rs 8,000 crore of retention money to provide liquidity support to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) concessionaires. Retention money is the amount a concessionaire has to keep with the government during the construction period, in proportion to the work already executed. “Currently, […]

TRICHY: After a steep decline in April, road accident rate in the state has slowly started to increase since May 17, when lockdown norms were relaxed. Compared to the period between March 24 and May 17, road traffic accidents increased by almost double after May 17 in the city. Lockdown due to Covid-19 left all […]

HYDERABAD: A 24-year-old worker travelling on his two-wheeler along with his friend in drunken condition dashed into a road divider and pole in Jeedimetla and died. His friend is said to be in critical condition. The deceased, Sopan Ram works at a hotel along with his colleague was travelling on a Bajaj Platina bike from […]

Kanpur: As many as 35 migrant brick-kiln labourers were injured, 10 among them critically, when a bus carrying them from Rajasthan to Hamirpur district fell into a ditch in Etawah district on late Thursday night. The incident occurred near Pehlan village turn under the limits of Bithauli police station of the district on Thursday at […]