The overspeeding bus, which belonged to Jakhar, went out of control and overturned near Hathuniya village. The injured passengers were rushed to the district hospital in Paratapgarh.
Police have registered cases in both incidents and started an investigation. A man and his daughter who were injured in one of the incidents are being treated in a hospital.
In the aftermath, Kulkarni raised crucial questions about expressway safety, denouncing over-speeding, lane cutting, and heavy vehicles in improper lanes. He also highlighted the absence of immediate aid from authorities and proposed safety measures for ride-sharing platforms like Uber.
The auto, carrying seven students, was on its way to Siripuram from the railway station when the collision with the lorry occurred. The injured students were immediately taken to a local private hospital by concerned locals.
The police said that people, who met with accident, had come from Thoria village in the Birni police station area to attend the function at Tikodih, around 40 km away.
Nainital road accident: The vehicle fell into the gorge while trying to save a motorcycle coming from the opposite direction, he said. While six people were killed on the spot, two died at a hospital. A couple and their son were also among those who died in the accident, the SSP said.
Odisha road accident: The deceased were identified as Nayan Kumar Nayak, Ghanasyam Barik of Jharsuguda district, and Anand Nayak from Sundergarh district.
Tamil Nadu road accident: The deceased were identified as Tamilmani (51), Chitra (49), Selvarani (70), Balakrishnan (78), and Kalarani (50), said the police. Kalarani died while undergoing treatment at the Dharapuram Government Hospital.
The accident occurred on a highway linking Bulawayo with Beitbridge, a town bordering neighboring South Africa. Road accidents are common in Zimbabwe, due to poor condition of roads and rash driving.
All the deceased are said to be from Delhi's Shahdara. The bodies were later sent for post-mortem.
While en route to Pushkar, their car collided with a truck on National Highway 52 in the Hindoli police station area.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the one of the bus apparently lost control, and rammed into another bus which was coming from the opposite direction.
Maharashtra road accident: Police said that both the drivers of the vehicles were declared dead at the hospital after succumbing to serious injuries and four people received minor injuries.
The accident killed all three passengers due to fire following the collision. The police further informed that after hitting the car, the oil tanker collided with a pickup van on the highway, due to which the driver of the van died on the spot.
Jammu and Kashmir road accident: A vehicle carrying eight devotees fell into a ditch today after visiting Mata Vaishno Devi Temple.
The passengers were standing on the road because of a punctured tyre of the bus and were hit by a fast-moving truck coming from behind.
Mumbai road accident: According to the police, the speeding car involved in the accident was coming from Worli towards Bandra. Zone 9 DCP Krishnakant Upadhyay said that out of the total injured, two are still in a critical condition.
According to the information, three to four vehicles collided together towards the Bandra end of Sealink.
Delhi bus accident: The police believed this is the first such fatal crash by the electric low-floor DTC bus, since its induction in the fleet of public transport. The statement of the bus driver has been recorded to corroborate the sequence of events, police said.
Kalaburagi road accident: According to SP Kalaburagi, A Srinivasulu, all five people died after a motorcycle collided with a truck near Balluragi Village in Kalaburagi District. Soon after the accident, the driver of the offending truck fled the spot and efforts are being made to nab him, he said.
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