Road Safety

HYDERABAD: At least eight people, including five women, were killed and 20 others sustained injuries in two separate road accidents in Telangana on Monday. The first accident took place when a DCM van collided with Medak police said that all the five people who died in Sangaipet were women. Medak Superintendent of Police Chandana Deepti […]

Says Tamil Nadu has made significant progress in this regard There has been a 10 per cent reduction in the number of deaths caused due to accidents in India since the passage of the amended Motor Vehicles Act five months ago, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari informed Rajya Sabha on Monday. The Minister, while replying to […]

Irfan Pathan played an unbeaten knock of 57 as India Legends defeated Sri Lanka Legends by five wickets in the ongoing Road Safety World Series on Tuesday at the DY Patil Sports Stadium. Chasing 139, India Legends got off to the worst possible start as the side lost Sachin Tendulkar (0) in the very first […]

Five people died and 35 were injured as a bus coming from Uttarakhand fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district on Tuesday morning, police said. The accident occurred at Chehli village in Chamba Sadar area around 6.45 am. The Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus was on its way to Chamba from Dehradun, […]

A nine-year-old boy was killed after he was run over by a mini tipper hardly 10 metres from his home near Chengamanad on Thursday around 7.30 a.m. The deceased was identified as Muhammed Jeseem. He was cycling his way back home after collecting a book from the neighbourhood when tragedy struck. Dies on spot The […]

In a tragic incident, 12 people were killed and four critically injured in a head-on collision between an SUV and a tractor in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar early Saturday morning. The accident took place in Kanti area on National Highway (NH) 28 when a speeding Scorpio collided with a tractor loaded with bricks. The tractor […]

Taking note of high road accident fatalities in Punjab, a Supreme Courtappointed committee on road safety has asked the state government to review its move to enhance speed limits. In a communication to Punjab principal secretary of transport, the committee has asked the state government to submit a report within 15 days. The committee has […]

At least 13 persons, including women and children, were killed and five critically wounded when an SUV collided with a car that had crashed against a road divider moments ago near Kunigal in Tumakuru district of Karnataka in the early hours of Friday, police said.  At least 13 persons, including women and children, were killed and five critically wounded when an […]

Challenging the conventional approach to road crash investigation, a ‘road safety court’ was inaugurated in Faridabad on Friday. It was like any other court session, going over the problem points, but instead of assigning blame, it focused on understanding structural lapses. It’s a new approach, realigning the way in which road accidents are investigated. “Police, […]

At least five people were killed and two others received serious injuries in two road accidents in Supaul district on Tuesday morning. The first mishap occurred around 6.30 am, when a speeding SUV collided head-on with a bus near Dakahi Ghat under Sadar police station, which resulted in the deaths of three of the car’s […]