New Delhi: Sixteen people have been charred to death and over 35 have been injured after the Hampi Express collided with a stationary goods train at Penukonda in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh early on Tuesday morning. Following is a list of the train accidents in India since the year 2000: January 2011: Goods train derails in Ghaziabad. April 2011: Mumbai Rajdhani Express catches fire near Ratlam, no deaths....
10:33 AM, May 22, 2012
HYDERABAD: Most of the Volvo buses, which have airconditioning facility, catch fire due to short-circuit. Besides,the buses have the engine at the rear and a delicate chassis. There were several possibilities for eruption of fire like disturbances at the exhaust man-pole located near the silencer, leakages from the fuel tank or short-circuit in the engine.When a Volvo bus meets with an accident, the damage to the vehicle can be immense...
10:23 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: A DTC driver accused of driving rashly and mowing down a pedestrian, who was crossing a road, has been absolved of the charges by a Delhi court which held that drivers cannot always be blamed for accidents due to the "menace of jaywalking" in the city. Observing that "even the most vigilant driver cannot avoid an accident if someone unexpectedly walks into middle of the road", Metropolitan Magistrate...
03:39 AM, May 12, 2012
There is death on the roads of India. We are focusing on a tragedy that is numbing. Thirty-two-year-old Shama Chopra, pregnant with her first child was killed by a speeding BMW on May 5. Her mother, who was also in the car, is in a coma, her father who was in Delhi for a heart bypass surgery now has a broken backbone and multiple injuries, her husband Sailesh Shetty has ...
01:42 PM, May 11, 2012
There is death on the roads of India. We are focusing on a tragedy that is numbing. Thirty-two-year-old Shama Chopra, pregnant with her first child was killed by a speeding BMW on May 5. Her mother, who was also in the car, is in a coma, her father who was in Delhi for a heart bypass surgery now has a broken backbone and multiple injuries, her husband Sailesh Shetty has...
01:42 PM, May 11, 2012
Vidyadhar Malegaonkar, Chief PRO, Central Railway said that people in Mumbai were forced to trespass railway lines as "there are not too many connectivities". ...
08:29 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: A joyride gone horribly wrong in Mumbai. Eighteen-year-old Shivani Raut lost her life in a car crash, while six others are hospitalized. Police claims one of their friends was driving the car in an inebriated state. The accident happened near an ATM, after the driver lost control and hit a tree, before ramming straight into a stationary autorikshaw. Shivani Raut, along with 5 friends, was on a joyride in...
09:17 PM, Mar 31, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Motor accidents involving two-wheelers are once again emerging as a cause for concern in the district. More stringent checking and awareness generation initiatives by the police notwithstanding, in the past week alone, six men - three of them aged under 30 - died in separate accidents across Thiruvananthapuram city and rural police limits. Last Wednesday, Pratheesh, 32, a motorcycle rider, died after his vehicle collided with a KSRTC bus...
12:17 PM, Mar 27, 2012
A day after government's tough stand on drunk driving, mixed reactions have come in from across the country. ...
10:30 PM, Mar 02, 2012
A young man died in Delhi last Sunday after his Lamborghini lost control and crashed into a road divider, injuring a cyclist seriously. ...
11:50 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: About 15,000 people die every year trying to cross the tracks of India's mammoth rail network, a "massacre" that a government committee said was being ignored by railway authorities. The safety panel said new bridges and overpasses were urgently needed, but it noted previous recommendations to make the world's fourth largest railway system safer had been ignored. Its report noted that railway authorities were unwilling to view the...
08:43 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: India suffers a staggering hit of Rs 1 lakh crore ($20 billion) every year due to road accidents, according to the International Road Federation (IRF), which says the country lacks "political will" to tackle the menace. "The losses due to road accidents have crossed Rs 1 lakh crore annually. The sad part is the establishment knows it. These figures are present in their own records and despite this,...
12:32 PM, Feb 19, 2012
CHENNAI: Figures released by Greater Chennai Traffic police show that 21 lakh cases were registered in connection with traffic violations in the city and a total penalty of Rs 14 crore was collected in 2011. The statistics also reveal that while overall accidents decreased by 0.5 per cent, fatalities rose by three per cent compared to the previous year. Pointing to stricter enforcement of traffic laws, the data shows a...
08:44 AM, Jan 06, 2012
HYDERABAD: As sure as one year follows the next, Hyderabad sees a spate of accidents occurring during revelry on new years eve. This time, 10 people lost their lives in five separate mishaps in the city and its outskirts. All the accidents were attributed to drunken or rash driving. In Bowenpally, five youngsters travelling at a high speed on one motorcycle, crashed into a wall and fell into a nala....
09:07 AM, Jan 02, 2012
HYDERABAD: 5,000 may be a small number in a city of over 5 million. But the number means big for the families of accident victims in the city. With people rarely adhering to traffic rules, its pure luck that the figure of 5,000, for all its zeroes, has managed to remain a digit lesser. Though the total number of accidents so far this year sounds alarming, the police put it...
09:28 AM, Dec 08, 2011
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