Tag: Road Accident

Shimla: Ten people, including three women, were killed and 25 injured when a private bus they were travelling in fell into a 200-foot-deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district on Saturday night, the police said. The accident occurred on the Dalhousie-Pathankot road near Banikhet in Dalhousie sub-division after the driver lost control of the vehicle […]

Bhubaneswar: Six members of a family embarked on a journey in a car from Rourkela to Bhubaneswar Friday night. Hardly did they know that their journey would turn fatal. Late last night near Kamgara on Kamakhyanagar-Dhenkanal road in Dhenkanal district, their car suddenly lost balance and turned turtle after hitting a wild boar on the […]

Dhenkanal: A truck carrying cattle skidded off road at Dhania Nali under Nihala Prasad Police limits of the district today, killing at least five cattle on the spot. As per reports, the cattle-laden truck was en route to Bhadrak from Nihala Prasad when its connector slipped causing the carrier to fall off. As a result, […]

Pune: Three women, all senior citizens, were killed early on Wednesday in a hit-and-run accident while they out on a morning stroll, a police officer said. The incident occurred near Udapur village on a state highway route Ahmednagar-Kalyan Road around 5.45 a.m. Traffic was sparse at that hour on the otherwise usually busy road, said […]

Kendrapara: In a heart-wrenching incident, a class 10 student lost his life in a road accident hours before knowing his result which was declared today. One Biswajit Majhi (16) of Rajarajeshwari died after the four-wheeler in which he was traveling along with others hit a truck at Baro Chhak on Cuttack-Chandabali road last night. According […]

Kalahandi: Five members of a family including two children were killed while the domestic help and another member suffered critical injuries after the car they were travelling in was hit by a truck near Jaring forest in Bhawanipatna area of Kalahandi late last night. Three among the deceased have been identified as Ashutosh Behera of […]

Boudh: At least 18 passengers were injured after a bus en-route to Bhubaneswar from Bolangir hit a tree near Basudevpali on NH-56 (Khurda-Bolangir road) in the district. All the injured have been admitted to  Sonepur hospital. While the exact cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained, it is suspected that the bus driver […]

Sonepur/Balsore: One person was killed while 11 others sustained injuries in separate road mishaps in Sonepur and Balasore districts today. In Sonepur, one person was killed while another person sustained critical  injuries after the two-wheeler they were riding collided with a car on the bridge over Anga river near Binika. The deceased has been identified […]

Nayagarh: A student was killed while her father sustained critical injuries after the two-wheeler they were riding was hit by a cement laden truck  at Gourangpur village under Ranpur police limits in the district on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as student of Class 8th and daughter of one Ranjit Kumar Padhiari. As per […]

Bhubaneswar: At least six persons including three members of a family were killed in separate road mishaps in different parts of the State on Wednesday. Three members of a family were killed after the bike they were riding was hit by a coal-laden truck on National Highway-49 near Pipilimal in Jharsuguda district early today morning. […]

Mexico City: At least 23 Catholic pilgrims were killed when a bus carrying them hit a cargo truck and erupted in flames in Mexico, authorities said. The collision took place on Wednesday in the state of Veracruz. The pilgrims were returning home to the Archdiocese of Tuxtla in Chiapas after visiting Mexico City’s Basilica of […]

Jammu: Four people were killed and nine others injured in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Thursday. Police sources said the incident happened when a vehicle carrying 13 passengers went out of the driver’s control and fell into a deep gorge at Khelani Nallah in Doda district yesterday evening. “The injured […]

Bolangir: One person was killed while two others sustained critical injuries in two mishaps involving three ambulances at separate places of the State on Saturday morning. In the first mishap, one person died and another was injured after a speeding truck rammed into two ambulances near Ratanpur Chhak under Deogaon police limits on Bolangir- Titlagarh […]

Dubai: As many as 12 Indians were among the 17 people who were killed when a tourist bus from Oman rammed into a signboard in Dubai, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar confirmed today. Nine others, including the bus driver, have been severely injured and are being treated in the city’s Rashid Hospital. The External Affairs […]

Hazaribagh (Jharkhand): Eleven persons, including three women and a child, were killed and 22 others injured Monday when a Patna-bound bus hit an iron-laden stationary trailer-truck on NH-2 in Hazaribagh district, police said. The accident took place at dawn near Danua-Bhanua area under Chouparan Police Station limits, when the bus crashed into the trailer-truck from […]