Road Safety

The Union Road Transport Ministry has said that its new cashless scheme for road accident victims will come under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY). TOI on Tuesday had reported that the government is planning on providing cashless treatment for road accident victims and creating a special road accident fund.The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna or PM-JAY was launched in […]

Hyderabad: Three members of a family died after their car crashed into a truck at a junction in Suryapet on Friday. The driver is said to be in critical condition. M Sadanandam (70), his wife M Vijaya Kumari (60) and son M John Joseph (32), from Palakollu in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, were travelling to Hyderabad […]

JAMMU: Five persons were killed in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Friday. The police said a car skidded off the road after it went out of the driver’s control in Raggi Nallah area of Doda district. “The vehicle plunged into a deep gorge, killing all its five occupants. The debris of the […]

Bareilly: Regional transport authorities conducted online classes on road safety for drivers of public transport vehicles, during the Road Safety Awareness week being observed across the state. Officials at Regional Transport Office (RTO) said that around 40 drivers deputed in public transport vehicles, including UPSRTC buses, autorickshaws, those engaged with motor training schools and even […]

RANCHI: Jharkhand witnessed a 70% reduction in road accidents during the lockdown period between March and May this year, the data compiled by the road safety wing of the state transport department has revealed. Between March 24, when the nationwide lockdown came into force, and May 31, a total of 304 accidents were recorded in which 211 persons died and 227 others sustained […]

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 […]