Road Safety

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 […]

KRISHNAGIRI/ERODE: Five people, including a couple, died in different road accidents in Krishnagiri and Erode districts of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. One of the accidents took place near Rayakottai in Krishnagiri district. Chinraj, 40, of Muthampatty village and his son Venkatesan, 22, were heading to Kelamangalam from Muthampatty on a bike on Wednesday evening at […]

Kannada television actor Mebeina Micheal died in a road accident on Tuesday evening. The 22-year-old actor , who gained popularity on the reality show Pyaate Hudugir Halli Life, was on her way to her hometown Madikeri and the accident took place near Devihalli in Karnataka, reports indiatoday.in. Mebeina was travelling with friends when her car […]

JAIPUR: Three people, including two women, died in a road accident near Bharatpur on Monday. They were traveling for treatment in an ambulance from Agra to Jaipur. Two others were injured when the ambulance collided with a tree. This is second such accident in Bharatpur in the same area in just a matter of days. In the previous accident […]

Ranchi: Road accidents have claimed quite a few lives in Jharkhand in recent times. Since May 1, at least 17 people have died in mishaps in the state. Even though the nationwide lockdown had initially led to a reduction in the number of road accidents and casualties, as fewer vehicles hit the streets, accidents have suddenly spiked […]

A vegetable wholesale dealer on Sunday hit a two-wheeler near Maduravoyal with his car, and tried to speed away without realising that the rider he hit had fallen on the vehicle’s roof. The victim Ranjitkumar was rescued after the police chased down and intercepted the vehicle. The police said Ranjitkumar, 27, of Ayapakkam, was riding […]

Six farmers were killed and one person injured in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district on Tuesday night, news agency ANI reported. The farmers had gone to sell vegetables in the market and were returning home when the mini truck they were travelling in was hit by another speeding truck in the Friends […]