Road Safety

NEW DELHI: Speeding on roads took the most number of lives in Delhi, followed by dangerous driving. Data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that of the 1,433 fatal accidents that took place in 2019, more than 500 casualties were a result of speeding. The period between January and March was the deadliest. Two-wheelers were found to be the reason behind most […]

Maharashtra ranked second among states in terms of road accident deaths with 14,608 cases last year, behind Uttar Pradesh (23,285), according to NCRB data. But in some silver linings, both Maharashtra and Mumbai witnessed a decline in accidents in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to NCRB data. While Mumbai ranked 32nd among cities […]

If a bad road plays a part in causing a fatal accident, cops will deem the driver to be the chief villain. The cops’ reasoning is that if the path is not smooth, the driving ought to be. Earlier, cops used to book people involved in fatal accidents under the Indian Penal Code’s Section 304-A […]

Accident deaths shot up by nearly 72% in Indore during the Covid pandemic, largely because of high-speed joyrides on empty roads and new drivers taking to the wheel in the absence of public transport. As many as 232 people died between April and July 2020 in 1,563 accidents, a significant jump from 135 deaths in the same […]

Five people died after their car collided with a lorry in Warangal district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. According to police, the incident occurred at Pasaragonda crossroad in Damera mandal of the district when the car hit the sand-laden lorry coming from the opposite direction while trying to overtake another vehicle, resulting in the […]

The mangled remains of the SUVThe mangled remains of the SUVVILLUPURAM: Six people, including five members of a family, died on the spot and two children suffered injuries when a sport utility vehicle they were travelling in overturned and rolled into a sewage canal at Padhiri in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Thursday. The […]

Chandigarh: To ramp up efforts for improving road safety in the state, the Punjab Police joined hands with the Safety Alliance for Everyone Society (SAFE) to launch the “Safe Punjab” programme.There has been a drop in road accidents and fatalities in the state in the last one year and the move aims at further improving […]

Six persons were killed and five others injured in a collision between two Uttar Pradesh state roadways buses on the outskirts of Lucknow on Wednesday morning, prompting the state government to order a probe into the accident. Six persons were killed and five others injured in a collision between two Uttar Pradesh state roadways buses […]

Road safety activists in the state, who would otherwise travel to schools and colleges in an attempt to impart safety awareness, have decided to shift their focus online. “From September onwards, we will contact schools and organise webinars for students. This can be done only in collaboration with schools and colleges, as a session between regular […]

Three people, including two women, died and eight others were injured after a collision between a tempo and a truck on the Ludhiana-Khanna national highway about 25 kms from here on Wednesday morning. The deceased included 22-year-old Shakeel and 45-year-old Bala from Muzaffarnagar and 20-year-old Kajal from Meerut. Police officials said that a tempo carrying […]