Jammu: Thirteen people were killed early Wednesday when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, police said. The Tata Sumo carrying 13 passengers rolled into a 300 metre deep gorge at Digdol, about 165 km north of Jammu city, an official said. All the passengers died instantly. Bodies were scattered all over and police were finding it difficult to...
10:51 AM, May 30, 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
New Delhi: A 23-year-old MBA student was killed while his friend escaped unhurt when his speeding car turned turtle after hitting a road divider in south Delhi early on Friday, police said. Ramandeep Singh, a resident of Yusuf Sarai in south Delhi, was driving a Toyota Corolla car. He died on the spot while his friend Neha Bindra escaped unhurt. The accident took place on the Panchsheel Park flyover at...
06:23 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai: India's two major state capitals, Delhi and Mumbai, saw two cases of road accidents. In Delhi, a beat constable died on the spot and two others were injured while in Mumbai, the son of a former top cop rammed into a cyclist. In Delhi, a Mercedes rammed into a police motorbike on Monday night, killing one constable and injuring another. The police have arrested the driver, hotelier Gurdeep...
09:43 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Mumbai: She may be destiny's child, or just plain invincible: this 43-year-old woman survived two road accidents in 1980 and 1984, escaping death by the breadth of a hair each time. And just when she thought she had suffered her share of perilous experiences, she was caught in the raging inferno of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast. This time too, she miraculously escaped. 19 years have passed since her last...
05:11 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Kozhikode: The condition of Malayalam film actor Jagathy Sreekumar, who was admitted to a hospital here after he met with a road accident, is stable, doctors attending on him said today. The condition of the actor, who underwent an emergency surgery after the accident on March 10, "is stable at present", Dr Abdullah Cheriakkat, Managing Director, Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment, told reporters here...
01:36 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Kuala Lumpur: Two Indians were killed and 22 others injured when a speeding tourist bus carrying them lost control and overturned on a winding mountain road in western Malaysia on Monday. The bus carrying 24 people, including two drivers, lost control, hit the road divider and crashed on the other side of the road at the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway while coming down from the hill resort of Genting Highlands. All...
02:13 PM, Mar 05, 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
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
Srinagar: At least 11 people were killed and 25 wounded in a road accident in Kargil district of cold desert Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir late Friday evening, police said. "Eleven passengers were killed and 25 others wounded, four of them critically when a bus coming to Kargil town from Zanskar went out of the driver's control and rolled down a deep gorge at Panzilla pass yesterday night," a...
09:50 AM, Nov 05, 2011
Ranchi: Twenty two people were killed when the bus carrying them collided head-on with an iron-laden trailer near Bundu, about 50 km from Ranchi, police said. "The bus was going to Arah in Bihar from Jamshedpur when it collided with the trailer around 3.30 am, killing 13 people on the spot. The rest succumbed to injuries in hospitals," Superintendent of Police (Ranchi rural) AV Minz, told. The iron rods pierced...
11:52 PM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: Six people have been killed and 23 injured on Saturday. A private bus lost control and overturned on the Jamnagar-Bhavnagar highway in Gujarat. The accident took place near Fala village when the bus, which started from Bhavnagar, was 40 km short of Jamnagar. Initial inquiries revealed that the driver dozed off, causing the bus to veer off the road and overturn. The injured were rushed to a hospital...
08:05 AM, Jul 09, 2011
Jammu: A BSF jawan was killed and two others were injured when a truck in which they were travelling hit a rock on the Jammu-Poonch highway in Rajouri district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place when the BSF truck carrying ration supply, hit the rock after the driver lost control over the vehicle at Kalidhar, 90 kms from Jammu late Saturday night, police said. One head constable of...
07:27 PM, May 15, 2011
Dubai: An Indian man, who was jailed for killing six people in a road accident in Saudi Arabia, has been released after the family of the victims agreed to a blood-money deal. Sulieman Abubakr, 55, from Karnataka was driving on the highway to Saudi capital of Riyadh in April 2008 when his truck collided with a vehicle, killing six members of a Saudi family. The accident occurred about 200 km...
11:43 AM, Apr 28, 2011
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