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PRAYAGRAJ: As many as nine members of a family, including five men, three women and one child, were killed when the SUV carrying them collided head-on with a truck container near Wazidpur village under the limits of Nawabganj police station of Pratapgarh district Friday early morning. SP (Pratapgarh) Abhishek Singh told TOI that the incident […]

In a meeting through video conference on Monday, Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) administrator and municipal commissioner Astik Kumar Pandey said that road accident fatalities have reduced by 65 % over the last four months. The meeting was held with the elected representatives of the civic body. Citing official data, Pandey said, “Against the 243 deaths […]

One hundred and ninety eight migrant workers lost their lives in road crashes during the lockdown from March 25 to May 31 imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), according to data compiled by the SaveLIFE Foundation, a non-government organisation that promotes road safety . At least 1,461 road crashes took place […]

A police constable working at the Tirumala II town police station was killed in a road accident near Chandragiri highway . The deceased was identified as A Jayachandra (45). The 45-year-old head constable was hit by an unidentified vehicle when he was heading on his bike along the Tirupati-Puthalapattu highway in the late hours on […]

At least eight persons were injured when a bus carrying West Bengal-bound migrants, who were stranded in Kerala due to the lockdown, was hit by a truck in Odisha’s Balasore district on Sunday, police said. The accident took place a day after another bus from Kerala carrying migrants to West Bengal overturned near here on […]

A city police constable died on Tuesday evening after his scooter was hit by a speeding truck near Sector 30 in Gandhinagar. The deceased was identified as Kirtisinh Rathod, 33, a constable with Gujarat University police station and a resident of Sector 3A in Gandhinagar. According to the FIR registered with Sector 21 police, the deceased’s […]

Lockdown in March led to a sharp drop in road accidents and casualties happening because of it. In March alone, road accidents reduced by at least 22% and deaths by at least 20% in the state compared to the corresponding month last year. Sources in the road safety cell , UP, said that the drop […]

PATNA: Road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav on Thursday said a committee has been formed under managing director (MD) of Bihar Rajya Pul Nirman Nigam Ltd (BRPNN) to inquire into Wednesday’s incident in which three children died when a prefabricated heavy concrete slab on which they were playing fell on them near Lalit Bhawan on Bailey Road here. The minister said […]

Coimbatore: Five people were killed in separate road accidents in the past two days in the district. In Sulur, 43-year-old P Ilangovan, a commercial inspector with Tangedco, was killed after a speeding truck hit his scooter near the L&T bypass-Pattanampudur road on Saturday night. Ilangovan suffered severe head injuries and died instantly. Police registered a […]