Road Safety

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 […]

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 […]