Road Safety

The British-era Amrutanjan Bridge near Lonavala on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway was demolished onSunday using controlled blasting, a senior official said. The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) demolished the 190-year-old bridge to make the traffic between Mumbai and Pune smoother, the official said. The bridge, which was built by the British in 1830, was causing […]

HYDERABAD: Three pedestrians were injured in an accident after being hit by a milk van on the outskirts of Mekaguda village near NATCO pharma company under Nandigama police station limits on Thursday. According to the Cyberabad traffic police, the milk van’s headlights were not turned on. The van was heading towards Mekaguda from Mahbubnagar when […]

ven labourers from Karnataka were killed and four injured when the van in which they were travelling was hit by a truck near Pedda Golconda on the outskirts of the city late on Friday night, police said. The deceased included two children. Of the 31 workers in the van, five died on the spot and […]

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday informed that it has extended the validity of documents related to Motor Vehicles Act and Central Motor vehicles Rules (fitness certificate, all types of permits, driving license) till June 30, 2020, to give the customers some relief due to the current disruption which has caused complete lockdown and closure of […]

HYDERABAD: Seven persons were killed in a road accident after a goods vehicle was hit by a lorry on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) on Saturday. According to police, the goods vehicle was carrying 31 migrant labourers who were employed with a road infrastructure firm in Suryapet district. All of them were being sent back […]

Transporters’ associations and members of the Agriculture Produce Market Committee said the Centre’s decision to exempt goods trucks from highway toll had made little difference because drivers and helpers had started abandoning stranded vehicles in anticipation of a prolonged logjam. Two days into a 21-day lockdown, India’s hugely disrupted supply chain for essential commodities struggled […]

THANJAVUR: Two people were killed in a road accident involving a tourist van and a two-wheeler near Athirampattinam in Thanjavur district. The deceased have been identified as S Muthu, 18, a native of Gandhi Nagar near Athirampattinam in the district and Shanmugasundaram, 39, of Pinnathur village in Tiruvarur district. According to police, Muthu, a labourer, […]

Chandigarh: The Haryana Police has decided to install speed radars on 187-km stretch of Ambala-Delhi national highway to keep a check on overspeeding vehicles, an official said on Sunday. The equipment detects the speed of a vehicle and displays it on LED screen. The speed radars will be installed in five Haryana districts — Ambala, […]

COIMBATORE: Four students of a private paramedical college in Salem and driver of a sport utility vehicle (SUV) they were travelling in died on the spot when the SUV rammed the rear side of a truck near Avinashi in Tirupur district of Tamil Nadu on Thursday morning. Three students suffered injuries in the mishap. The accident happened […]

COIMBATORE: The traffic wing of the city police have outshone their counterparts in the State by bringing down the number of fatal road accidents. While 38 people lost their lives between January 2019 and March 15 last year in the city, only 17 people died in road accidents during the same period this year, deputy commissioner of police […]