Road Safety

Leading Tollywood distributor Kamalakar Reddy and his father took their last breathe on Wednesday after meeting with a tragic accident. Kamalakar Reddy, who distributed films like Arjun Reddy, Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya and various Hollywood films was recently also tested positive for coronavirus, according to reports. On the fateful day, Kamalakar and his father Nandagopal Reddy were travelling […]

Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot on Wednesday flagged off 30 new vehicles of the department’s enforcement wing currently carrying out a drive against polluting vehicles in the city. Flagging off the fleet of vehicles from Rajghat cluster bus depot, he said the enforcement wing has been an active participant in all major road safety and […]

Three persons were killed while two sustained injuries in two separate road accidents in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Monday. In the first case, two people died on the spot and one was seriously injured when the car they were travelling in veered off the road and crashed into a roadside tree at Rajiana in […]

Two persons died and another was injured when a car skidded off a highway in Uttarakhand’s Tehri Garhwal district on Sunday and fell on a road below, an official said. The three residents of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh were on their way to Uttarkashi when the accident occurred on the Rishikesh-Gangotri national highway at Kandisaur, […]

Less than a week after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal put forth a comprehensive Delhi Electric Vehicle policy, transport minister Kailash Gahlot on Thursday signed an MoU with a New York-headquartered Bloomberg Philanthropies to ensure road safety and mobility in the capital. “Through this MoU and by joining the Global Road Safety Initiative by Bloomberg Philanthropies, we are partnering with the world’s leading organisations to […]

Five persons were killed and four critically injured when two cars collided on National Highway-8 at Nadiad in the Kheda district of Gujarat on Sunday night. Two cars collided on the Ahmedabad-Vadodara National Highway-8 killing five on the spot. The injured were rushed to the Civil Hospital in Nadiad, the police said. “Five people have […]

PRAYAGRAJ: A higher number of road accidents of fatal and non-fatal category were recorded between June and July — when curbs were eased on services as part of Unlock 1.0 and 2.0 — as compared to the lockdown months of April and May in Prayagraj range. Prayagraj, Pratapgrah, Fatehpur and Kaushambi are the four districts which comprise Prayagraj range. According […]

TRICHY: Two people from Chennai, including a woman, died and two others suffered injuries when a car they were travelling in rammed a truck near Pazhur in Trichy district on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as T Vijayalakshmi’s, 45, of Royapuram in Chennai, and R Siva, 30, a driver from Royapettah. Vijayalakshmi’s husband C Thirunamaperumal, 52, […]

A 23-year-old private firm employee was killed in a road accident at Nallakunta, Hyderabad early on Monday morning. Police suspect the man was drunk driving and the vehicle skidded while he was overspeeding.The victim, Edric Hutton, from Vijayapuri Colony fell on the road and died on the spot. “The man was overspeeding and we suspect that he was drunk driving,” […]

A19-year-old girl from Greater Noida’s Dadri district studying in Babson College in Massachusetts was killed in a road accident while she was on her way to Bulandshahr on a two-wheeler. The girl, Sudeeksha Bhaati, was back in India for vacations and was supposed to return to the US on August 20. The victim’s family has […]