A police official says a bus veered off a mountain road in west Nepal leaving at least 30 people dead and several more injured. Police official Ramesh Bahadur Dhanuk said the bus drove off the gravel road Saturday in a remote mountainous area near Chatiwan village. ...
12:07 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Seven persons were killed and 40 others injured after a commuter-van from a mine company exploded in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The mishap occurred on Friday in Shuangyashan City of the district of Lingdong, officials said. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 12, 2013
Eight people were killed and 30 injured when a bus collided head-on with a truck at Heria late Thursday, police said. According to police, five people died on the spot when the Digha-bound bus, which was coming from Howrah, collided with the truck. ...
12:07 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Twenty-five people, including 11 children, were killed and 10 others injured when a speeding truck overturned and fell into a roadside ditch near Titai Bigha in Aurangabad district in the wee hours on Thursday. Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Praveen Kumar Parai said from the accident spot that the injured had told him the truck driver was drunk and that he along with his assistant fled from the spot. ...
02:16 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on January 10 ordered an inquiry into the Aurangabad road accident which claimed 25 lives. Condoling the loss of lives, Kumar ordered the district magistrate and superintendent of police to inquire under what circumstances people were being carried in a truck meant for freight, an official statement said here. ...
01:18 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A high-speed ferry loaded with hundreds of commuters from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, seriously injuring 11 people, including one who suffered a severe head wound falling down a stairwell. ...
09:00 AM, Jan 10, 2013
A commuter ferry from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan during the Wednesday morning rush hour, injuring at least 50 people, at least two critically, officials and witnesses said. ...
10:13 PM, Jan 09, 2013
A GPS traffic application like Waze can help minimise road accidents with better deployment of police at the most accident prone sites, shows a study. ...
12:52 PM, Jan 06, 2013
An allegedly drunk policeman ran over a 22-year-old woman in Mumbai, who later succumbed to her injuries suffered during the accident on Monday. Family and friends of the woman have alleged that the policeman driving the van was drunk while the police have said the officer was not responsible. ...
09:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
An allegedly drunk policeman ran over a 22-year-old woman in Mumbai, who later succumbed to her injuries suffered during the accident on Monday. Family and friends of the woman have alleged that the policeman driving the van was drunk while the police have said the officer was not responsible. ...
09:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
CCTV footage shows an overspeeding car ramming into killing three people on the spot. ...
09:46 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Well-known Marathi actors Anand Abhyankar and Akshay Pendse were among three people killed in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway early Monday, police said. ...
12:50 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Chennai: In an early morning tragedy in Chennai, four students died in a road accident at one of the busy roads near Perungudi. The four students were travelling on the footboard of a bus reportedly. The incident happened when a truck brushed against the bus when it was reversing. The police are yet to identify whether the four were school students or college students. More details of the accident are...
10:32 AM, Dec 10, 2012
Detroit: Computer-controlled braking systems in cars and light trucks are saving thousands of lives in the United States, according to a three-year study released on Friday by federal safety regulators. The systems have been required on all light-duty trucks and passenger vehicles under a 2007 US federal safety regulation. The requirement was phased in over the years covered by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study. It estimated that...
01:11 PM, Dec 01, 2012
Jammu: At least 16 people were killed and 44 others injured when a bus carrying a marriage party rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district on Saturday evening, police said. The bus was carrying 60 people to Dudu Basantgarh, about 110 km north of Jammu, when it skidded off the road and rolled down into the gorge. "The bus rolled down about 300 feet into...
11:54 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Jaipur: Thirteen people were killed and 39 others injured when their bus collided with a truck in Churu district in the wee hours on Thursday. The bus was on its way to Karanpur town from Jaipur when the incident occurred near Sardarshahar, SP, Churu, Omprakash said. Seven out of the 39 injured are in a critical condition and have been referred to hospitals in Sikar and Bikaner. ...
09:33 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Hoshiarpur: The nephew of a senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader was on Monday accused of killing two girls in a grisly accident in Hoshiarpur. Reports say that the nephew of Banga MLA Mohinder Kaur Josh ran them over. Even as angry relatives of the girls' families blocked the Pathankot-Delhi highway, the accused was granted bail. The families have further accused him of harassing the victims. ...
02:35 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Cairo: Fifty people, mostly children, were killed when a train slammed into a school bus as it crossed the tracks at a rail crossing south of Cairo on Saturday, further inflaming public anger at Egypt's shoddy transport network. Witnesses said barriers at the crossing were open when the train hit the bus. Transport Minister Mohamed Rashad and the head of the railways authority resigned, and President Mohamed Mursi said those...
02:37 AM, Nov 18, 2012
Kochi: Malayalam actor Siddique escaped unhurt when his car went out of control and fell to a depth of 10 metre near Karunagapally in Kollam. The actor was returning to Kochi from Thiruvananthapuram past midnight yesterday after attending a television channel programme when the mishap occurred. Police immediately took the actor and the car driver to a nearby hospital where they were provided first aid and were discharged. Siddique is...
01:25 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Lahore: A bus transporting 15 Indian fishermen released from a Pakistani jail met with an accident in Punjab province on Monday, causing minor injuries to four of them, officials said. The Lahore-bound bus collided with a speeding truck at Jehanian, located 330 km from the capital of Punjab province, an official of the Highway Police Patrol said. Four of the fishermen sustained minor injuries and police took them to a...
11:00 PM, Nov 12, 2012
