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The Supreme Court of India issued sweeping directions to improve national highway safety, banning roadside parking and encroachments, mandating surveillance and emergency systems, and affirming safe travel as part of Article 21, after fatal accidents exposed serious infrastructure and enforcement failures

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari highlighted a cashless treatment scheme for road accident victims, providing up to Rs 1.50 lakh per person for the first seven days. The programme ensures timely care, especially benefiting daily wage earners and economically weaker families.

Jaswanth Singh, (24), a resident of Afzalgunj and native of Rajasthan, had stopped at the Salar Jung Bridge traffic junction after the traffic signal turned red

The victim D Thirumalesh (30), was returning in his Maruti Breeza car from Shamshabad to Hyderabad when the mishap occurred

In the first incident, two motorists were killed after being hit by a rashly driven car in Secunderabad, while in the second, two private travel buses collided, leaving several passengers seriously injured in Yadadri-Bhongir district.

While road safety awareness programmes are being held across the State, people continue to die in road accidents

RTC’s pilot project helped reduce accidents up to 40 pc

In a tragic incident, pilgrims from Hyderabad, who were on their way to Basara from Hyderabad, met with an accident on NH-44 near Kallakal in Medak district on Saturday morning.

SP DV Srinivas Rao urged the public living in low-lying areas and dilapidated houses to be watchful of the heavy rains. He asked the people not to take routes flooded by streams and rivers to avoid accidents and drownings.

In the first incident, Mustaq Khan was returning home from Shadnagar on his bike when a rashly driven truck mowed him down at Palamakula in Shamshabad rural.

Talking at an event held here to mark World Rabies Day, the chief minister said that dogs from certain breeds are aggressive and attack people.

Gujarat witnessed a total of 4,860 hit-and-run cases, this included 1,499 cases in 2020-21, 1,591 in 2021-22, and 1,770 in 2022-23.

In order to curb the rising number of accidents on Tirumala Ghat Road, the Tirupati police have taken new measures.

District Collector Ch Shivalingaiah stressed the need for setting up speed breakers, zebra crossings, signboards and CCTV cameras at strategic locations on national highways

In a road accident at Jeellacheruvu in Kusumanchi mandal, a youth J Sandeep (21) of Dharma thanda in the mandal was killed when a speeding lorry hit his motorbike from behind

Karimnagar Commissioner of Police L Subbarayudu has called upon the people to inculcate self-discipline among all kinds of vehicle users to reduce accidents and to avoid traffic snarls and congestion

The collector directed officials to take precautionary measures to prevent road accidents

Sangareddy: One person died, and two others sustained injuries in a head-on collision between a ready mix concrete vehicle and DCM on NH-65 at Isnapur under Patancheru Police Station limits on Friday. As the cleaner and other persons traveling in the DCM were struck in the mangled vehicle, the police took a couple of hours […]

Khammam: Three persons died in separate accidents in erstwhile Khammam district on Saturday. In a road incident at Cherla mandal headquarters a youth, K Raghava (22) of Madhira was mowed down by a speeding lorry while he was crossing the road. In another incident at Bommanapalli B Palanetra (18) of Tekulapalli mandal was killed when […]

Hyderabad: Of the 363 fatal road accidents reported in Cyberabad Police Commissionerate this year until May, nearly 58 per cent of those who lost lives were either two-wheeler drivers or pillion- riders. As per the data available, of the 211 persons killed in various two-wheeler accidents between January and May, 172 were drivers and 39 […]