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Careless driving and overtaking caused maximum fatalities in Uttar Pradesh
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What is more appalling about the preventable road accidents in India caused by potholes is that no one is held accountable for such tragedies. Even the conservative official figure puts the pothole death toll at 5,626 between 2018 and 2020. This is quite alarming for a country that aspires to compete with developed nations in […]
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Hyderabad: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is taking several measures to bring down the accident rate in the country in consultation with various stakeholders. According to data furnished in the Rajya Sabha by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, around 17 lakh road accidents were reported in the country between 2017 and […]
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Hyderabad: Three persons died on Tuesday in separate road accidents in the city. At Vanasthalipuram, B Suresh Kumar (47), a resident of Raghavendra colony in Hayathnagar and his sister M Vijaya Laxmi (43), a government school teacher from Nalgonda were going on a motorcycle to the LIC office at Ameerpet and had stopped the bike […]
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Adilabad: A youngster Katkuri Umesh (28) was killed on the spot when an unknown vehicle mowed down a two-wheeler in which he was travelling on national highway 44 at Mandagada village in Jainath mandal on Monday. According to Jaianth Sub-Inspector Bitla Persis, the victim Mahesh hailed from Mandagada village. The accident took place at a […]
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Hyderabad: At Bahadurpura, a pedestrian died after being hit by a tipper lorry on Sunday morning. Abdul Rashid (45), a resident of Mustafa Nagar was walking on the Mir Alam filter road when a tipper lorry hit him from behind. “Rashid fell down the road and sustained serious head injuries and died on the spot,” […]
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Adilabad: People invent many things, but fail to win patents for their discoveries. As a result, their inventions do go unnoticed. But, a family of the backward Adilabad district earned recognition by achieving two international patents and two copyrights within a year of time. It is waiting to receive two more patents for their inventions […]
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Hyderabad: Aiming to curtail accidents involving school buses and enhance safety of students, the Hyderabad Traffic Police have started orientation classes on road safety for school bus drivers. Traffic police officials will take classes for drivers during which they will be told about various safety measures to be adopted. The programme was initiated following a […]
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Hyderabad: Three persons including two pedestrians were killed in separate road accidents in the city. K. Devi Bai (42), a resident of Nethajinagar in Rajendranagar police station limits was hit by a car while she was walking near the AG college main gate late on Saturday night. “The victim was crossing the road when a […]
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Karimnagar: Additional DGP (Road Safety), Sandeep Shandilya opined that it was possible to control road accidents through continuous safety measures. They managed to reduce 500 road accidents during the last one year period by taking various safety measures. The Addl DGP organized a meeting with the police officials of Karimnagar and Ramagundam police commissionerates, Rajanna-Sircilla, […]
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Hyderabad: In just one week, between January 22 and 28, eight lives were lost and 29 others sustained injuries in 37 road accidents under the Rachakonda Police limits. During the week, the Rachakonda Traffic Police booked 46,814 cases for violation of various traffic rules and imposed fines to the tune of Rs 1.96 crore against […]
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Warangal: As many as 426 people lost their lives in road accidents in 2021 under the Warangal police commisisonerate jurisdiction, while 1,110 people sustained injuries in 1106 accidents despite conducting special awareness drives and taking other steps to check the road accidents. Rash and negligent driving by the youngsters and wearing no helmets were found […]
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Peddapalli: At least 16 passengers were injured when a speeding lorry rammed into a TSRTC bus at Sultanabad bus stand on Rajiv Rahadari on Wednesday morning. The bus was exiting from the bus stand. According to police, the RTC bus belonging to Manthani depot was proceeding towards Karimnagar. While the bus was getting onto Rajiv […]
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Hyderabad: Three persons were killed in separate road accidents in the city. At Madhapur, a woman Jennifer Maria Dcruz, (24), a resident of Neredmet in Secunderabad died after being hit by a car. She was going along with one T Ajay on a motorcycle when a car rammed into them while they stopped at a […]
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At Medchal, two persons died in separate accidents.
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Ramanamma, who was riding pillion came under the front tyre of the bus and died on the spot. The others survived with minor injuries.
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With pedestrians accounting for 23% of total deaths in road accidents, traffic police are taking fresh initiatives
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While 95 deaths attributed to over-speeding, the same period also saw 39 pedestrians lose their lives in Hyderabad
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Raju, a native of Peddur, died when he was hit by a container vehicle in Sardapur. Later, coming to know about Raju's death, his elder brother Narsaiah, who was in Venkatapur, started on his motorcycle but met with an accident and died
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Traffic accidents kill thousands every year in Egypt, which has a poor transportation safety record.
