road safety

Hyderabad, April 8 Five people have been killed, and another has been injured in two separate road accidents in Telangana, police said on Wednesday.A car hit two engineering students who were riding a motorcycle, and a pedestrian who was crossing the road, in Hastinapuram late Tuesday night...

Hyderabad, April 7 Telangana DGP B Shivadhar Reddy visited the Karreguttalu hills, a densely forested area in the Mulugu district of Telangana bordering Chhattisgarh, on Tuesday, and declared the area free from Naxal influence.During the visit, he laid the foundation stone for multiple...

Thane, April 7 Two young men were killed and another was seriously injured when a speeding bus collided with their motorcycle in the Mumbra area of the city on Tuesday evening, police said.The victims, all residents of Thakur Pada, were riding from Roshni Mahel towards Y Junction."The...

KISHTWAR, April 6, 2026: To improve road safety, the Motor Vehicles Department in Kishtwar, under the supervision of ARTO Tasleem Wani, has disqualified 10 drivers for serious violations, including reckless driving, overloading, and failure to wear helmets, thereby enforcing compliance with the...

Kabul, April 6 – Five people were killed in a head-on collision in Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, according to the provincial government office on Monday.The accident occurred on Sunday night in the Zard Sang area of Dushi district when two fuel tankers collided and caught fire, the...

Kabul, April 5 – At least one person was killed and five others were seriously injured in a traffic accident on the major Kabul-Kandahar highway in Wardak province, eastern Afghanistan, the official Bakhtar news agency reported on Sunday.The accident occurred on Saturday evening in the Sayyed...

Jaipur, April 5 The Centre has approved the construction of an elevated corridor in Rajasthan's Udaipur district for ₹363.89 crore to ease traffic congestion and improve road safety on the busy NH-48 stretch.Sharing details on social media, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said the project will be...

In Himachal Pradesh, four tourists lost their lives and 19 others were injured when a vehicle carrying tourists from Delhi plunged into a deep gorge in the Kullu district yesterday evening. The accident occurred in the Sojha-Ghyagi area of the Banjar subdivision.The injured have been admitted...

Bhubaneswar, April 4 – Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Saturday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari for approving ₹447.11 crore for the upgrade of a key National Highway stretch in the state.In a statement issued on...

Jaipur, April 4 – A road accident in Jodhpur's Keru area on Saturday claimed the life of a 35-year-old motorcyclist, triggering unrest as an angry mob set the bus involved in the collision on fire. Police later brought the situation under control after deploying additional forces.The incident...

Mandla (Madhya Pradesh), April 4 – In a tragic road accident late at night on the Mandla-Raipur section of National Highway 30, three young men died, while a fourth sustained critical injuries after a violent head-on collision between two motorcycles near Chartola, under the Gadhi police station...

Thane, April 4 The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Thane district of Maharashtra has awarded a compensation of Rs 21.5 lakh to the family of a 45-year-old woman who was killed by a speeding tempo in 2020.The tribunal, presided over by K P Shrikhande, held the tempo driver solely...

Barwani, April 3 – In two separate tragic road accidents, two tribal youths lost their lives while two others sustained serious injuries after their vehicles plunged into deep ravines in the Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh.The first accident occurred late on Friday near Biliya Pani Ghat...

Raipur/Kondagaon, April 3 – In yet another tragic incident highlighting the growing danger of speeding trucks on national highways, a cyclist was killed instantly, and a motorcyclist sustained serious injuries in a road accident on National Highway-30 early Friday morning.The accident occurred...

New Delhi, April 2 The Delhi Police have arrested a taxi driver for allegedly driving on the wrong side of the Dwarka Expressway and using a fake registration plate on his vehicle, an official said on Thursday.The action was initiated after a complaint was lodged by a police constable...

New Delhi, April 2 – Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Taranjit Singh Sandhu reviewed mobility and digital traffic management issues with senior officials on Thursday, emphasizing the need to scale up the use of AI and community participation to create congestion-free roads.During his...

Hyderabad, April 2 Five young people were arrested for riding a two-wheeler and allegedly performing dangerous stunts on roads, police said on Thursday.The Saifabad Police arrested the five individuals, aged between 18 and 22, for performing dangerous stunts, following an investigation based...

Bhopal, April 2 – A 50-year-old man was killed and four of his family members were injured when an out-of-control dump truck crashed into a house on a roadside in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur district on Thursday.The incident occurred in Kamti village, under the Gadarwara police station area...

Shimla, April 1 The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed the Shimla Road Users and Pedestrians (Public Safety and Convenience) Amendment Bill on Wednesday, paving the way for hefty penalties for violators.The amended bill, introduced by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and passed in the...

Bengaluru, April 1 Diageo India, in collaboration with the Institute of Road Traffic Education and the Bengaluru Traffic Police, has undertaken a road safety and traffic engineering study aimed at improving safety and traffic efficiency at key intersections in the city, the company said on...