Road Safety

VELLORE: It was a miraculous escape for about 35 students of a school after the left rear wheels of their school bus detached from the axle after one of the tyres burst while crossing Ramanur near Jolarpet in Tirupattur district on Thursday. JTMS, a high school, has been functioning in Jolarpet since 2011, a police […]

KOLHAPUR: A 45-year-old woman was killed on the spot after she was knocked down by a truck near the busy market yard in Kolhapur cityon Tuesday morning. A case in this regard has been registered at the Shahupuri police station. The deceased has been identified the woman as Ankita Kailas Powar, a resident of Bodke […]

Did the Supreme Court properly use numbers to back up its decision to ban the sale of alcohol on national highways? It would appear not. “The judgment of this Court concludes that there is no justification to allow liquor vends on state highways (while prohibiting them on national highways) having due regard to drunken driving […]

Ten persons were killed and eight others suffered injuries in two road accidents in Guntur district on Sunday. The injured were admitted to the Government General Hospital (GGH) in Guntur, and the condition of two of them was stated to be critical. Guntur (Urban) Superintendent of Police P.H.D. Ramakrishna said that six persons, who included […]

The scheme is aimed at fixing potholes on roads in Haryana. Making a provision for this scheme for the next financial year, the state government has announced the launch of a mobile application called ‘Herpath’. Haryana government has come up with a unique scheme to compensate the people for giving information about the potholes roads […]

Aims to spread awareness of road safety A campaign to sign a petition on change.org to make the helmet an emoji is drawing the attention of the youth within weeks of its launch. Started by the general insurance company, ICICI Lombard, the drive aims at getting the maximum number of people to sign the nationwide […]

THRISSUR: Even though there is no let-up in the road accidents in the state, the road safetyauthority formed to ensure road safety is practically remaining a toothless institution with acute shortage of manpower and resources. The recent CAG report itself had given an account of the failure of the government to allocate financial resources to […]

Three farm hands, including two women, were killed when a cargo vehicle in which they were travelling, was hit from behind by a speeding car at Aruppukottai on the Thoothukudi-Madurai highway on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as S. Palaniammal, 28, M. Vijayalakshmi, 22, and Mari, 55. Seventeen persons injured in the accident have […]

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced to take care of hostel and education expenses of children belonging to the families of those 24 victims who died in a bus accident on Wednesday. The bus operating without clearances fell into Mej river near Bundi. The accident killed 24 out of 29 passengers on the bus going […]

Citizens’ group Aamchi Mumbai Aamchi BEST has urged the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking to convert its depots into distribution centres for food, water and medicines. In a letter to BEST committee chairman Anil Patankar, the group also asked the BEST to provide safety kits to its staff and explore the option of […]