JAIPUR: In a heartbreaking incident, Radheshyam Vishnoi, a renowned wildlife conservationist, along with three other individuals, including a forest guard, lost their lives in a devastating road accident in the Lathi area of Jaisalmer district.

RANCHI: Six people were killed and four others seriously injured in three separate road accidents across Jharkhand on Wednesday, police officials said.

BHOPAL: In the wake of a tragic road accident that claimed the life of a young doctor and left six others injured, the Regional Transport Office (RTO) and Bhopal police jointly launched an extensive vehicle inspection drive across the city on Tuesday.

AMARAVATI: At least four persons were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh’s Palnadu district on Tuesday, police said.

BENGALURU: In two separate tragic road accidents on Monday, five people lost their lives in Chitradurga district and Hosakote town near Bengaluru, Karnataka.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab State Child Rights Commission has summoned reports from the Deputy Commissioner and Senior Superintendent of Police, Patiala regarding the recent road accident in Patiala.

BENGALURU: In two separate tragic road accidents in Karnataka on Thursday, nine people, including three minors, lost their lives, and one person was in critical condition in Haveri and Bagalkot districts.

BHOPAL: Two persons were killed and 122 others injured in two separate accidents in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.

PHAGWARA: A tragic road accident on the Phillaur-Goraya highway claimed the life of a motorcyclist, officials confirmed.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab PWD Minister S. Harbhajan Singh ETO on Wednesday informed the House that the proposal to install cat's eye reflectors on roads is under consideration of the department so as to prevent road mishaps especially during the foggy weather in winter.

NEW DELHI: There is an immediate need for improved road safety measures to put in place, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has said, urging the road construction industry to develop strategies to enhance road safety by adopting newer technologies and sustainable recyclable construction materials.

PHAGWARA: One motorcyclist was killed on the spot while his pillion rider friend sustained serious injuries when a speeding Fortuner Car bearing registration number PB-065-0007 hit their bike on JCT Flyover in Phagwara late last night. The Fortuner overturned after the accident. The deceased was identified as Manoj resident of Haibowal Ludhiana. The injured identified as Hani resident of village Bhattian was admitted in local civil hospital.

CHANDIGARH: At least nine people were killed and 11 injured in a collision between a pick-up van and canter truck while transporting workers of a catering service provider in Punjab's Ferozepur district on Friday, police said.

PHAGWARA: A Mahilpur resident Paramjit Singh was killed on the spot while his wife Gurminder Kaur sustained serious injuries when a car in which they were going to Jalandhar side dashed against a pole near Mehli-pass on Banga—Phagwara highways on Wednesday Evening.

JERUSALEM: Seven people were killed and five injured in a road accident in Limpopo Province, northeastern South Africa, local authorities confirmed.

HYDERABAD: Seven persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on Saturday.

KABUL: At least 44 commuters have been confirmed dead and 76 others were injured in two separate road accidents in east Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Wednesday night, a local official reported Thursday.

KOLKATA: Death Audits in case of fatalities in road transport accidents (RTAs) will be compulsory in West Bengal, as per the latest order from the state Health Department.

KOLKATA: Four members of a family, including two children, have been killed in a tragic road accident in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, officials said here on Monday.

CHENNAI: In a tragic road incident, three people from Kerala, including a two-month-old toddler, lost their lives on Thursday when the Alto car they were travelling in collided with a truck at Madhukarai in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu.

ISLAMABAD: Two people were killed and 15 others injured in a road accident in Pakistan's east Punjab province on Monday morning, rescue teams said.

HASSAN (Karnataka): In a tragic incident, a probationary IPS officer was killed in a road accident in Karnataka's Hassan district on Sunday, police said.

AMARAVATI: Two doctors from Karnataka were among 10 people killed in three separate road accidents in Andhra Pradesh.

PHAGWARA: One Scooterist was killed while four others including his pillion rider wife and three small children sustained injuries when the Scooter on which they were riding was hit by a speeding car being driven by an ASI of Punjab Police near village Sarhal Mandi near Phagwara last night. The deceased was identified as Balwinder Kumar resident of village Pandori near Nakodar.

PATNA: A motorcycle turned into a ball of fire on being hit by a speeding vehicle, burning two of its three riders to death in Bihar's Gaya district , police said on Saturday.

PATNA: A tragic road accident occurred on Thursday evening in the Arwal district of Bihar, claiming the lives of four persons while three others were also injured.

CHANDIGARH: In a significant stride towards reducing road accident fatalities, Punjab Transport Minister S. Laljit Singh Bhullar, on Thursday, outlined an aggressive and multi-pronged strategy to enhance road safety across the state and stressed for zero-tolerance approach to traffic violations and introduced several critical interventions.

UTTAR PRADESH: Five people lost their lives, and four persons sustained injuries in a horrific road accident at the Gorai intersection in the Mallawan police station area of Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district in the early hours of Monday.

PHAGWARA: A Scooterist was killed on the spot when the Activa bearing registration number PB-09AD-4579 was hit by a speeding canter from rear side near Vishal Mega Mart in the city last night.The deceased was identified as Tushar Singh resident of Staff Colony Phagwara.

KAITHAL: A man and a woman died and about half a dozen people were injured in a horrific collision between a cruiser car and a truck last midnight near village Kharak Pandawa on Hisar-Chandigarh National Highway.

ABUJA: At least 10 people were killed after a bus rammed into a stationary truck in Nigeria's northern state of Jigawa, the police said.

DEHRADUN: In a tragic road accident in Uttarakhand's capital, six students lost their lives in a collision between a truck and an Innova car.

KOLKATA: Three people were killed on Saturday after being hit by a pickup van at Tulshihata in West Bengal's Malda district.

JAIPUR: Eight people were killed and 40 others injured in separate road accidents in Rajasthan on Tuesday.

KOLKATA: Four people were killed in a horrific road accident on the National High number 116 at Tamluk in East Midnapore district of West Bengal.

HYDERABAD: Four persons were killed and one was injured in a road accident in Telangana's Nagarkurnool district on Saturday, police said.

CHANDIGARH: With a view to reduce road accidents and accidental death rate in the state, Punjab Transport Minister S. Laljit Singh Bhullar, on Friday, launched the Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) project in the state, thus making Punjab the first state in the country to initiate ultra-modern technology equipped with GIS maps for reducing road accidents to the minimum level, improving road designs and identifying accidental black spots.

JAMMU: One person was killed and 56 others injured on Monday in a road accident in Jammua and Kashmir's Rajouri district.

SRINAGAR: Two tourists were killed and 10 injured in a road accident in J&K's Ganderbal district on Thursday, police said.

GURUGRAM:In an unfortunate incident, an MSc student died in a road accident while his friend got critically injured after the Royal Enfield motorcycle they were riding toppled.

JAMMU: At least five persons were killed and one was injured after a vehicle they were travelling in went out of control and fell in to a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Saturday, police said.

HYDERABAD:Six persons died and over 10 were injured in four separate accidents in Telangana since Tuesday night.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed deep grief over the loss of lives in a road accident in Champawat, Uttarakhand.

SRINAGAR: Four Army soldiers were injured on Tuesday when their vehicle met an accident in J&K's Baramulla district.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the loss of lives in a road accident in Rajasthan's Kota.

CHANDIGARH: Famous Punjabi film actor and social activist Deep Sidhu today died in a road accident on KMP highway (Kundli-Manesar highway) near Delhi. More details of accident are awaited.

PATNA: One person died and six others were injured as three vehicles, including two trucks, collided on Patna-Arrah NH 30, police said on Saturday.

JAMMU: One person was killed and 20 others were injured in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Tuesday.Police sources said a bus, carrying tourists from Uttar Pradesh, turned turtle inside the Banihal-Qazigund tunnel today afternoon.

PATNA: Three police personnel were killed and two others critically injured after a speeding dumper rammed into a police vehicle in Patna on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Expelled Uttar Pradesh BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, along with five others, was on Monday discharged in the Unnao rape survivor's rape accident case after a Delhi court found no evidence against him.

LOHIAN:A 60-year-old man was killed in a road accident.
The investigating officer (IO) Avtar Singh said that the deceased has
been identified as Bhagwan Singh a resident of Chak Gadaipur village,
Swarann Kaur wife of the deceased told the police that her husband was
killed in a road accident.

MANILA: At least five persons were killed and 15 others injured on Friday in an accident on a busy road in the central Philippine Cebu province, according to police, and local media reports.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan escaped unhurt when the vehicle in which he was travelling in hit a barricade and then a median near the Madurai airport on Thursday.

PATNA: More than 20 persons were injured when a bus collided with a truck in Bihar's West Champaran district on Tuesday morning, police said.

HYDERABAD: Four persons were killed and one injured in a road accident in Telangana's Karimnagar district on Friday, police said.

HYDERABAD: A youth from Telangana's Nalgonda district has died in a road accident in the United States.

ISLAMABAD: At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan in the last 24 hours, local media reported on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU: Four Indian nationals were killed in a road accident in Rautahat district near the Nepal-India border, police said.
The car with an Indian number plate met with the accident at around 10 p.m. on Saturday night along the Chandranigahapur road section at Jhunkhunwa Chowk, according to the District Police Office in Rautahat.

AMARAVATI: Seven people, including five women, were killed in two separate road accidents in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district on Friday, police said.

NEW DELHI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed grief over the loss of lives in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, and approved an ex-gratia from Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) for the victims.

JAMMU: Ten people were killed and 16 others injured on Thursday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, police sources said.

SRINAGAR:  An Indian Army officer and soldier were injured in a road accident in J&K's Anantnag district on Wednesday, police said.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CBI, which probed the death of popular young musician Balabhaskar in a 2018 road accident, on Thursday reiterated that it was an accidental death and there was no evidence to prove otherwise.

JAIPUR: Six candidates of the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teacher (REET) test were killed in a road accident when the van they were travelling in collided with a truck on NH-12 on Saturday.

 CHENNAI: Two persons were killed and 14 others injured in a pile-up involving trucks on the Dharmapuri-Salem highway at Thoppur in Tamil Nadu's Salem district in the early hours of Tuesday

CHIKKABALLAPUR(Karnataka):At least seven people were killed and five others seriously injured as an overloaded jeep collided head-on with a truck in Karnataka's Chikkaballapur district on Sunday, police said.

CHENNAI:  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday condoled the death of Karuna Sagar (28), son of DMK MLA from Hosur Constituency Y. Prakash, in a road accident near Bengaluru.

JAIPUR:  A total of 11 people lost their lives while returning to Madhya Pradesh after offering prayers at Ramdevra temple in Rajasthan when their jeep reportedly collided with another vehicle in Nagaur's Shribalaji town on Tuesday morning at around 7.45 a.m.

KAPURTHALA:District Legal Services Authority, Kapurthala has distributed compensation of Rs. 8 lakh to the families of those killed in various road accidents.

SHAHKOT:The Shahkot police have initiated proceeding under section 174 of the Cr.P.C. in connection with the death of two Kapurthala residents in a road accident.

JAMMU:Three persons were killed and several injured on Monday when a mini bus fell into a rivulet in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district.
Police sources said the bus went out of the driver's control near Piyakul Dunadi village on Machipal Kahara road in Doda district and plunged into a rivulet.

MATHURA(Uttar Pradesh): Three weeks before his marriage, a 24-year-old groom and his teenager neighbour were killed when their motorcycle collided with a tractor in Mathura's Kosikala area.

GWALIOR(Madhya Pradesh):At least 13 people were killed and several injured in a head-on collision between a bus and an auto in the old cantonment area of Gwalior on Tuesday morning, said police.

NEW DELHI: Two men in their early twenties were killed and one injured after the bike they were traveling hit the divider in Dwaraka on Saturday evening.

SRINAGAR: Four army soldiers were injured on Friday in a road accident in J&K's Kulgam district.

HYDERABAD:Three people have been killed in two separate road accidents in Hyderabad.

AGRA: Nine persons were killed and three seriously injured when a Scorpio vehicle rammed into a container on Thursday morning in the Etmadpur area here.

CAIRO: At least 20 people were killed and five injured when a microbus and a truck collided on Egypt's El-Kureimat highway in Giza province.
The accident took place on Saturday after the truck's tire exploded, leading it to crash into the microbus that was travelling in the opposite direction, Xinhua news agency reported.

ABUJA: Nine people were killed and 41 others injured in a road accident involving multiple vehicles in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kano on Sunday, a local official said.

JAUNPUR: Six persons haven killed and 11 others injured in a road accident in Jaunpur district on Tuesday morning.

GURUGRAM: At least three persons including an employee of the fertilisers department have been killed in separate road accidents at different stretches of the city, the police said on Monday.

CHANDIGARH: Saddled with the onerous task of striking a balance between regulating growing traffic on Haryana roads and ensuring security of the residents, the Haryana Police have gone hi-tech and re-jigged functioning to step efficiency. It starts giving dividend. In the year 2020, Haryana state has witnessed a decrease of 16 per cent in road accidents as compared to the year 2019.  The number of deaths in road accidents has also decreased by 12 per cent.

KOLKATA: Fourteen people lost their lives in a road accident in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district as a boulder-loaded truck coming from the opposite direction collided head-on with a multi-purpose vehicle.

SHIMLA:  People must be sensitised about ensuring road safety and obeying traffic rules as almost 90 per cent of the road accidents are caused due to human error, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Monday.

ISLAMABAD: At least seven people were killed and several others injured on Monday when an overspeeding passenger van lost control and fell into a deep gorge in Pakistan's Punjab province.

 HARDOI(UP):Three persons were killed and five others sustained serious injuries when the car in which they were travelling, rammed into a stationary truck in Shahabad area in Hardoi district.

ISLAMABAD: At least 13 people were killed and 15 others injured in a passenger van-bus collision in Pakistan's Punjab province on Monday.
The accident took place when the van hit the bus coming from the opposite direction in Sheikhupura district, Xinhua news agency reported.

GANDHINAGAR:Nine members of a family, including five women and a child, were killed and at least 16 others injured in a road accident in the early hours of Wednesday at Waghodia crossroads near Vadodara in Gujarat, police said.

SHIMLA: Seven labourers from Bihar were killed and one was injured when a vehicle rolled into a rivulet in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, police said on Monday. The victims were coming from Ludhiana city in Punjab. The accident occurred around 3 a.m.

SHAHKOT: A 23 years old youth was killed in road accident on Thursday early near Shahkot. The investigating officer (IO) Karamjit Singh said that the deceased has been identified as Gurpreet Singh (23) a resident of Mansa.

NAKODAR:There were 48,550 fatal road accidents on National Highways (NHs) in India during 2018, up by 2.81% against 47,223 during 2017

HYDERABAD:Six migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh were killed after an SUV they were travelling in overturned after hitting an unidentified vehicle on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) near Hyderabad in the early hours of Tuesday.

GURUGRAM: A teenaged boy and a 25-year-old man were killed in two separate road accidents in Gurugram, police said on Monday.

BAHRAICH(Uttar Pradesh): Six persons were killed and 10 injured in a road accident in Bahraich district on Monday morning.
The accident took place near the Shivdaha crossing when the SUV they were travelling in crashed into an unidentified vehicle.

NURMAHAL:An unidentified vehicle driver on Tuesday late evening killed two persons riding a motorcyclist.The investigating officer (IO) Harbhajan Singh said that the deceased have been identified as Ashok Kumar  a resident of Kandola Kalan village and Narindar Singh  a resident of Shadi Pur village.

CHANDIGARH: Manisha Gulati Chairperson of Punjab Women Commission was today seriously injured in a road accident near Jamdia;a Guru in Amritsar district.

KABUL:Afghanistan batsman Najeeb Tarakai passed away on Tuesday after being involved in a fatal road accident last week. He was 29.

DEORIA:At least five people were killed and one other injured in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria, police said.
The accident occurred on Monday night on the Salempur-Laar road.

BAHRAICH(Uttar Pradesh):Four persons were killed and six injured on Wednesday when the car they were travelling in rammed into a tree on the Bahraich-Sitapur road in Uttar Pradesh, police said.

KOLKATA: A West Bengal woman police officer, her driver, and security guard were killed when the official vehicle they were travelling in rammed a stationary truck loaded with sand on the National Highway-2 on Friday morning.

JAMMU:Five people were killed in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Friday.

PATNA:Eleven people were killed on the spot in a horrific road accident in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Saturday.
The road accident took place in the wee hours of Saturday when a Scorpio collided with a tractor at NH-28 near Sarmastpur Healthcare in Muzaffarpur's Kanti block. The collision was so intense that the scorpio turned into pieces. The death toll may increase, said police.

CHANDIGARH:Six people were killed and five injured when their van rammed into a stationary truck in Haryana's Hisar district on Monday, the police said.

JALGAON(Maharashtra):10 persons were killed and another six injured, including three seriously, in an accident involving an SUV and a dumper truck on the busy Ankleshwar-Burhanpur Highway, early on Monday, an official said.

JAIPUR:Seven people lost their lives while one sustained critical injuries on Sunday night when a Fortuner they were travelling in was hit by a vehicle in Nyama village near a private hotel on Fatehpur-Sujangarh National Highway 58, in Churu district.