Ghaziabad: The policeman who slapped a girl in Ghaziabad near the capital on Wednesday has been suspended. Sub Inspector Iftikar was caught on camera slapping a girl who was found flouting the law by drinking in a car. An inquiry has been ordered in the case.
There was high drama at a police station in Ghaziabad where a policeman and a local woman were caught on camera slapping a young girl. The girl retaliated by getting into a scuffle with the woman.
The girl was detained by the police after locals complained that she was found with a man in a car. The police received a PCR call on Monday night from the local residents about a couple drinking in a car.
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10:30 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: As many as 10,553 people were killed in road accidents due to drunken driving in 2011, parliament was told on Tuesday. Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that road accidents occur due to the complex interaction of a number of factors which also include intake of alcohol and drugs. "Intake of alcohol/drugs by drivers resulted in...
10:55 PM, May 07, 2013
San Antonio: Using voice to send text messages while driving is just as dangerous as texting with fingers, with driver response times significantly delayed no matter which method was used, a study released on Tuesday showed. The study by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University was the first to compare voice-to-text and traditional texting on a handheld device in an actual driving environment. "In each case, drivers took...
11:27 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Mumbai: Five people were injured after a speeding Audi car rammed into a police barricade near Marine Drive in Mumbai. Four of the injured are policemen. The driver of the car has been arrested. His blood samples have been collected and sent for testing. "Four policemen and one civilian were injured in the accident. The driver has been arrested. We have collected his blood sample and sent it for testing,"...
08:30 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Aurangabad: The 17-year-old son of a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, who was allegedly behind the wheel when his SUV killed a two-year-old child in in Aurangabad, has been granted bail. The teen was allegedly driving the car killing the two-year-old was killed, injuring another five-year-old, her father and uncle. The ownership of the car is now being questioned. Reports said that it is owned by Abdul Qadeer Maulana's elder...
01:45 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: Two constables have been injured after a BMW car ran over them late on Sunday night. The incident took place around 1:45 am near a check-point at Peddar Road in Mumbai. The police claim that the car refused to stop and ran over the cops and also hit another car. A male driver and a woman were inside the car. The 28-year-old driver has been arrested and booked for...
08:09 AM, Apr 08, 2013
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07:39 PM, Mar 24, 2013
A new system which prevents people from texting while driving by disabling the car has been developed in the US. ...
04:15 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Bendtner, on a season-long loan to Juventus from Arsenal, admitted to having been 3 times over the legal alcohol limit in Denmark. ...
09:15 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Drunken driving is responsible for 70 per cent of road fatalities in India. ...
12:39 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Taking a different approach to Google's self-driving cars, Oxford University has come up with a new autonomus car, which can drive itself, interact safely with other road users and can use roads efficiently. ...
12:03 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The Bombay High Court on Monday observed that prima facie a case of rash and negligent driving is made out against NRI beautician Nooriya Haveliwala, convicted in a 2010 drunken driving case. Justice AM Thipsay, while hearing the bail application filed by Haveliwala, also observed the prosecution should have examined the cab driver, whose vehicle was first hit by the SUV of the beautician, to make a stringent case against...
10:49 AM, Jan 29, 2013
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10:41 PM, Jan 20, 2013
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07:44 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Security has been beefed up in Guwahati and other parts of Assam in the run-up to the New Year, with city police launching special drive against drunk driving. "We have stepped up patrolling and put both uniformed personnel and plainclothes police at sensitive places. Our main target are those who are engaged in drunk driving," Kamrup Metro Senior Superintendent of Police AK Tiwari said. ...
06:33 PM, Dec 31, 2012
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01:03 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Salem: A man was allegedly beaten to death at Attur in the district by five persons who were irked over his advising them to drive safely, police said on Wednesday. The police said the man was driving his two-wheeler on Tuesday night when three persons on a motorcycle and two others on another two-wheeler rode past him with one of the riders standing. He advised them to drive safely and...
10:17 AM, Nov 14, 2012
Cleveland: A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children will have to stand at an intersection wearing a sign warning about idiots. Court records show a Cleveland Municipal Court judge on Monday ordered 32-year-old Shena Hardin to stand at an intersection for two days next week. She will have to wear a sign saying: "Only an idiot drives on...
03:36 PM, Nov 09, 2012
London: Third time's the charm? Not for this British woman, who managed to fail her driving theory test for the 105th time. The hapless motorist is believed to be UK's most incompetent candidate to date, according to data supplied by the Driving Standards Agency. The woman's latest unfortunate tilt at the exam took place at Ilford, the result was the same as the previous 104 attempts, The Telegraph reported. No...
01:27 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Mumbai: NRI beautician Nooriya Haveliwala on Thursday was convicted for ramming her car into two people in 2010 and sentence to five years in jail. Haveliwala was also slapped with a fine of Rs 5 lakh. A policeman was among those killed when an inebriated Haveliwala rammed her car on her way back from a party at Malabar Hill in Mumbai. Tests showed that Haveliwala was found to have been...
12:30 PM, Nov 01, 2012
