Mumbai:

Four people were killed and several others were injured after a bus they were travelling in collided with a tractor and plunged into a ditch near the Mumbai Express highway on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, police said.

According to officials, all the injured were admitted to a nearby hospital.

“Four people died and several others were injured after a bus collided with a tractor and fell into a ditch near the Mumbai Express Highway. All the injured were admitted to the nearby MGM Hospital,” DCP Navi Mumbai Pankaj Dahane said.

Officials said that the bus, carrying devotees, was en route from Kesar village in Dombivli to Pandharpur in Maharashtra when the accident took place.

The incident halted vehicular movement on the Mumbai-Lonavala lane of the Mumbai Express highway.

The bus could be retrieved with the help of a crane and traffic on the lane was resumed after three hours.

More details are awaited.

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Jaipur:

Four people were killed and three injured when a car collided with a truck on the Kishangarh-Bhilwara National Highway on Thursday, police said.

The car was returning to Jaipur from Chittorgarh.

Those dead in the incident include Dinesh (35), a resident of Sikar, his wife Sonu (32), his two-and-a-half-year-old son Bhanu and Sandeep’s friend Pradeep (25), Bijainagar SHO Karan Singh said.

The bodies have been kept in the mortuary and the injured are being treated in a hospital, he said

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Mumbai:

Five women were killed and two others injured after a speeding truck ran over them in Maharashtra’s Solapur district on Tuesday, police said.

The accident occurred in Bandgarwadi village on the Pandharpur-Atpadi Road around 3.45 pm, an official said.

The victims, who were farm workers, were waiting for a state transport bus when a speeding truck rammed into them, he said.

Locals rushed to the scene after hearing the women’s screams and alerted the Sangola police station, the official said.

Five women died on the spot, while two victims, who were in critical condition, were referred to a hospital in Pandharpur, he said.

Locals thrashed the truck driver and handed him over to the police, the official said.

A huge crowd gathered at the scene, disrupting traffic on the road, he said.

Personnel from Sangola police station dispersed the crowd after assuring strict action against the driver, he said.

The truck driver was also admitted to hospital as he sustained injuries in the attack by locals, the official said, adding that a case will be registered against him.

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Pune:

Days after the Pune Porsche incident in which two people were killed, a 28-year-old man in Pimpri Chinchwad of Pune district died on the spot after being hit by a speeding car.

The police later arrested the accused. The incident was caught on CCTV.

Pimpri Chinchwad Police, in a press statement, said that the incident occurred on May 27 at around 1.30 am on service road alongside the Pune-Bangalore highway in the Wakad area of Pimpari Chinchwad.

The 28-year-old Angad Giri was dashed by a speeding car while crossing the road which caused his death on the spot.

The whole incident was also caught on camera. Police have identified the car and its driver 20-year-old Vedant Rai and registered a case against him at Hinjewadi Police station under IPC sections of 304 (A), 338 ,337 ,270 along with Motor Vehicle act of 184 ,119 / 177.

The accused was arrested on May 28.

In the Porsche car incident, a minor ploughed his luxury car into the two IT professionals, who were travelling on a bike, killing them on the spot. Two young IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh, identified as Ashwini Koshta and Aneesh Awadhia, were killed in the accident on the night of May 19.

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Keonjhar:

At least six people, including four women, died in a road accident when two trucks rammed into their car in Champua area of Odisha’s Keonjhar district on Wednesday evening, police said.

The incident took place on National Highway-520 near Rimuli bypass, they said.

All the six passengers onboard the car died on the spot, a police officer said.

The deceased were family members.

The bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination, he added.

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Konaseema, Andhra Pradesh:

 Four people have been killed and several others were injured after a speeding bus rammed into a tractor in Andhra Pradesh’s Konaseema district.

The accident took place on Tuesday night near Udimudi village under P Gannavaram mandal in the district.

According to eyewitnesses, the Road Transport Corporation (RTC) bus collided with a tractor carrying labourers, causing the fatalities.

The impact resulted in the death of three people on the spot, while one person died en route to the hospital.

The injured are being treated at Kothapeta Government Hospital.

“The deceased have been identified as Nookapalli Siva (35), Vasamsetti Surya Prakash (50), Veeri Katlayya (45), and Chilakalapudi Panda (age unknown),” police said.

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Jaipur:

Six people of a family were killed and two children injured when their car collided with a tractor on the Mumbai-Delhi Expressway in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur on Sunday, police said.

According to the police, the family was going from Khandela in Sikar to the Trinetra Ganesh Temple in Ranthambore when the accident occurred. Assistant Superintendent of Police Dinesh Yadav said that the car was badly damaged and bodies could only be taken out with a hard effort. The two children injured in the accident were first admitted to the Community Health Centre in Baunli village and later were referred to Jaipur.

As per the police, the family was originally from Mukundgarh in Jhunjhunu but currently living in Sikar.
 

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Salem, Tamil Nadu:

At least four passengers were killed and twenty others were critically injured when a private bus plunged into a gorge in Yercaud in Tamil Nadu’s Salem on Tuesday evening, the officials said.

According to the police, the private bus was heading to Salem from Yercaud with 56 passengers on board when the incident took place.

While the bus reached the 13th hairpin bend, the driver lost control of the vehicle in the turning, and the vehicle hit the sidewall.

After this, the bus fell into the gorge, and landed on the 11th hairpin bend, the officials added.

The injured were rushed to the hospital.

“Yercaud police have filed a complaint and investigation is going on,” the police officials added.

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Lima:

At least 25 people died and more than a dozen were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine from a mountain road in northern Peru, local authorities said Monday.

Local official Olga Bobadilla told RPP radio the incident late Sunday happened on a potholed dirt road in the Andean region of Cajamarca, “and the bus fell into an abyss” some 200 meters (some 650 feet) deep.

The toll was updated from an initial 23 to 25 later in the day.

The bus with more than 50 passengers ended up on the edge of a river, and some of those on board were swept away by the water, municipal official Jaime Herrera said.

Rescue workers and firefighters were at the scene of the crash, from where the injured have been evacuated to hospital.

The Celendin municipality declared 48 hours of mourning as dozens of people, many crying, gathered at a police station near the accident scene, desperate for news of their loved ones.

Accidents are frequent on Peruvian roads due to speeding, poor road conditions, lack of signs and poor enforcement of traffic rules.

Last year, the country registered more than 3,100 deaths from traffic accidents.

Authorities are investigating whether the bus was roadworthy.

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Gurugram:

A 32-year-old man was killed after his car collided with a road sweeping machine of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), police said on Monday.

Abhinav Sharma, a resident of Malibu Towne and owner of a factory, succumbed to injuries on Sunday night, a day after the accident at the Vatika underpass on Sohna road, they said.

His body was handed over to his family members after postmortem on Monday, police said.

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