Road Safety

KANPUR: Six vegetable vendors were killed and one injured in a road accident in Etawah district on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. The incident occurred in Pakke Bagh area near Friends Colony police station while the vegetable vendors had gone to sell veggies in the market and were returning home when the pickup […]

Hyderabad: Eight people died in separate road accidents . Three people travelling to Hyderabad met with an accident in Nalgonda district. Two person died after a lorry hit them in Karimnagar. In Jangaon, a business and his driver died after their car hit a divider. A resident of Medak district was killed after being hit […]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Road Safety Authority (KRSA) has taken note of the fatal road accidents in state during the first two phases of lockdown and sought strict intervention by law enforcement agencies KRSA commissioner N Shanker Reddy formally directed the police and motor vehicles department (MVD) to ensure the presence of law enforcers at important traffic […]

Three migrant labourers and a bus driver were killed and 22 others injured after their vehicle hit a stationary truck in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district in the early hours of Tuesday, a police official said. The accident took place at Kolwan village around 3.30 am when the bus was on way from Solapur to Nagpur railway […]

LUCKNOW: Eight migrant labourers died and 108 sustained serious injuries in separate road accidents in Jalaun, Bahraich and Barabanki districts on Friday. CM Yogi Adityanath announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the deceased, while Rs 50,000 each to the injured. He also announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh […]

NASHIK: The Panchavati police arrested a driver and two others for allegedly knocking down two people including a woman near Peth Road on Monday. The duo died on the spot while crossing the road. The suspects are identified as Shubham Sonawane (22) of Phule Nagar , Sanil Pidole (22) and Subham Gallole (23) both from […]

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister announces a compensation of ₹2 lakh to the family of the deceased and ₹50,000 to the family of the injured Six migrant workers were killed and five were seriously injured on Wednesday night when a speeding State transport bus ran over them on the Delhi-Sharanpur highway near Muzaffarnagar, police said. The […]

NEW DELHI: The doubling time of novel coronavirus cases has slowed to 13.9 days in the last three days and India now has a capacity of 1,00,000 Covid-19 tests per day with nearly 20 lakh carried out till now, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday. His remarks came even as the death toll […]

KRISHNAGIRI: Seven people died in four road accidents Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on Friday. One of the accidents took place near Kandikuppam on the Chennai-Bengaluru national highway. Three textile workers, who were heading to their work place in Bengaluru on a two-wheeler, were hit by an unidentified vehicle near Chettipalli Koot Road. They died […]

The Chennai City Traffic Police have said that the fatality rate from accidents has reduced significantly in the city, compared to this period last year. A press release from the Traffic Police said that their wing is continuously taking various efforts to reduce accidents and fatalities in the city. Various accident preventive measures were taken, […]