Road Accidents

The family of a 22-year-old youth has accused cow vigilantes of thrashing him to death after branding him a cow smuggler in Nuh district, but police said he died in a road accident.

The death toll in the Lakhimpur Kheri road accident, in which a truck ran over a group of people standing on the roadside along the Kheri-Bahraich highway, now stands at six, police said today.

At least four people were killed and five others were seriously injured after being hit by a speeding truck, police said on Saturday.

Five youths were killed in an accident after the car in which they were travelling in collided with a lorry near Ambalapuzha in Alappuzha district in the early hours of Monday.

Good roads lead to high-speed traffic movement, posing the risk of losing control over the vehicles, said a BJP lawmaker in Madhya Pradesh while explaining the rising road accidents in the state.

In a tragic road accident on Friday, five persons were killed and 15 others were seriously injured at the Dhanu Parole village in Jammu and Kashmir's Billawar.

At least 25 persons were injured, six of them critically, in a road accident when a speeding bus in which they were travelling turned turtle in Odisha's Kendrapara district on Thursday, police said.

The car driver acknowledged that she lost control of the vehicle as "the road was slippery" and agreed to pay for the damage to the man's scooter.

A 71-year-old man was dragged by a scooter on a busy road in Bengaluru in broad daylight on Tuesday, a video showed.

Mumbai witnessed a decline in casualties due to road accidents by 30 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year thanks to the awareness campaigns conducted by the traffic police, a senior official said on Monday.

A woman and her son were killed and three injured when their car rammed into a stationary truck on the Ambala-Jagadhri highway here on Monday, police said.

A 41-year-old Indian-origin driver has been charged in Australia over an accident that killed four passengers from India when his car collided with a utility vehicle, according to media reports.

Road safety engineers visited the accident spot this morning to probe what caused the structure, over 40 feet tall and weighing several tonnes, to collapse on the woman and her family riding a scooter.

According to a report, Rishabh Pant will miss the cash-rich Indian Premier League because of his injuries in a road accident last month

The government on Monday termed the television news coverage of cricketer Rishabh Pant's road accident and some other crime stories "distasteful" and "heart-wrenching".

The family of a 22-year-old youth has accused cow vigilantes of thrashing him to death after branding him a cow smuggler in Nuh district, but police said he died in a road accident.

The death toll in the Lakhimpur Kheri road accident, in which a truck ran over a group of people standing on the roadside along the Kheri-Bahraich highway, now stands at six, police said today.

At least four people were killed and five others were seriously injured after being hit by a speeding truck, police said on Saturday.

Five youths were killed in an accident after the car in which they were travelling in collided with a lorry near Ambalapuzha in Alappuzha district in the early hours of Monday.

Good roads lead to high-speed traffic movement, posing the risk of losing control over the vehicles, said a BJP lawmaker in Madhya Pradesh while explaining the rising road accidents in the state.

In a tragic road accident on Friday, five persons were killed and 15 others were seriously injured at the Dhanu Parole village in Jammu and Kashmir's Billawar.

At least 25 persons were injured, six of them critically, in a road accident when a speeding bus in which they were travelling turned turtle in Odisha's Kendrapara district on Thursday, police said.

The car driver acknowledged that she lost control of the vehicle as "the road was slippery" and agreed to pay for the damage to the man's scooter.

A 71-year-old man was dragged by a scooter on a busy road in Bengaluru in broad daylight on Tuesday, a video showed.

Mumbai witnessed a decline in casualties due to road accidents by 30 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year thanks to the awareness campaigns conducted by the traffic police, a senior official said on Monday.

A woman and her son were killed and three injured when their car rammed into a stationary truck on the Ambala-Jagadhri highway here on Monday, police said.

A 41-year-old Indian-origin driver has been charged in Australia over an accident that killed four passengers from India when his car collided with a utility vehicle, according to media reports.

Road safety engineers visited the accident spot this morning to probe what caused the structure, over 40 feet tall and weighing several tonnes, to collapse on the woman and her family riding a scooter.

According to a report, Rishabh Pant will miss the cash-rich Indian Premier League because of his injuries in a road accident last month

The government on Monday termed the television news coverage of cricketer Rishabh Pant's road accident and some other crime stories "distasteful" and "heart-wrenching".