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| Auto driver rams into SP’s car |
A drunken auto-rickshaw driver today rammed his vehicle into the official car of UT SP (Operations and Vigilance) RS Ghumman near the UT Secretariat in Sector 9 here this morning.
The police said the auto-rickshaw driver, identified as Sita Ram, a resident of Kaimbwala village, was reckless and was driving on the wrong side. The police reached the spot and apprehended the auto-rickshaw driver. His medical examination proved that he was drunk and a case has been registered against him. He was later released on bail. |
| 07/08/2010 | Read More.. |
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| GCG student killed in accident |
| Tanvi, a BCom-II student of Postgraduate Government College for Girls, Sector 11, died while her classmate, Nupur, was seriously injured after their scooter rammed into an electricity pole on the road separating Sectors 14 and 15 here this afternoon. |
| 07/08/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Three Haryana cops killed in accident |
| Three Haryana police personnel were killed and four, including a Superintendent of Police (SP) Vigilance, Hisar, were seriously injured in a head-on collision between a Punjab roadways bus and a Sumo near Jhuggian village on the Zirakpur-Patiala highway here this afternoon. |
| 07/08/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 7 of family die as truck falls on van |
Irate residents set vehicle afire, block road
Seven members of a family were killed when a truck overturned and fell on the Maruti van they were travelling in at Machgar village, about 5 km from here, today.
The deceased have been identified as Chandrawati(58), her daughter Mamta (30), daughter-in-law Bhawna (25), and her grandchildren — eight-month-old Dhruv, Sanyogita (2), Abhijeet (7) and Abhi (5). |
| 15/07/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Six killed in Uttar Pradesh road accident |
| Six people were killed and four critically injured when two vehicles collided head-on over the Bajna bridge in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said Sunday. |
| 17/05/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 6 of family killed in car-truck collision |
Six persons of a family, including four children, died on the spot, when a car they were travelling in rammed into a speeding truck coming from the opposite side on the Amritsar-Pathankot road here today.
The accident took place this morning at about 10 am, near Gopalpura village, about 17 km from here, when their Honda city car collided head-on with a truck.
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| 17/05/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 28 of wedding party electrocuted in MP |
Twenty-eight people, mostly women, travelling in a wedding party, were electrocuted and charred to death when their minibus came in contact with a high-voltage wire and turned into a ball of fire in the tribal district of Mandla, 550km from Madhya Pradesh's capital, on Friday.
Police said the accident took place when metal objects and furniture like almirah, etc, on the roof of the ill-fated bus caught the overhead power line near Surajpur village. A total of 34 baratis, all tribals, were inside the bus. Six of the injured are now in Mandla district hospital.
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| 17/05/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 15 die as truck touches high-voltage wire in India |
Police say 15 villagers have died in eastern India after the truck they were riding in touched a high-voltage wire.
Sujit Kumar, superintendent of police, says another 30 people were injured in the accident Thursday near Satpura, a village in eastern Bihar state.
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| 17/05/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Pedestrian struck and killed at Queen and Rutherford in Brampton |
A 65-year-old pedestrian is dead after being struck by a car near a Brampton intersection, Tuesday morning.
Peel Regional Police said she was struck near Rutherford Road and Queen Street, just after 10:30 a.m.
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| 13/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Woman injured in Mississauga car crash not wearing seatbelt |
A 19-year-old woman who was seriously hurt after being ejected from a car in Mississauga was not wearing her seatbelt, police say.
The crash happened around 5:45 p.m. Monday as she drove east on North Sheridan Way, a street that runs parallel to the QEW in Mississauga.
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| 13/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 4 hurt in crash at Scarborough intersection |
A Scarborough intersection remained closed for most of Tuesday morning after a two-vehicle crash that left a man fighting for his life.
The accident, which occurred at Steeles Ave. E. and Birchmount Rd. just before 6 a.m., sent all occupants of both vehicles to hospital.
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| 13/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Two lecturers killed in accident |
| Two lecturers of a private engineering college were killed when a motorcycle on which they were riding was hit by an overspeeding truck at Sahaspur area near here, police today said. The incident occurred last evening when Neeraj Kumar, a resident of Bijnor, and Deepak Karnwal, hailing from Dehra Dun, were going to attend a marriage in Sahaspur area, they said, adding the duo died on the spot. |
| 07/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| TEN KILLED, NINE INJURED IN ROAD ACCIDENT |
| Ten people were killed and nine injured in an accident on the Pune-Satara highway in Maharashtra on Monday. The accident occurred at around 4.30 am, when the tyre of a jeep suddenly burst, causing it to overturn. Another speeding vehicle hit the jeep from the back, which then hit the wall of a new tunnel in the highway, killing all ten passengers. The jeep was on its way to Mumbai from Satara. |
| 07/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 25 killed in road accident in Colombia |
At least 25 people died in northern Colombia when the bus they were riding in drove off the road and down a 100-metre-deep ravine in Antioquia province.
Seven people were injured, some seriously, in the accident Easter Sunday. |
| 07/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Five killed in road accident near Indore |
At least five people, including a woman, were killed and an equal number injured when the SUV in which they were travelling collided head on with a speeding truck at Dewas Gate near here, police said Sunday.
The collision took place late Saturday when the car was on its way to Bhopal from Indore. All those killed were among the ten passengers in the SUV and died on the spot.
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| 07/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 6 killed, 40 injured in road mishap in N India |
| Six people were killed and 40 others were injured when a truck rammed and turned turtle into a bus in which they were travelling in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Monday, a senior police official said. |
| 07/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Killer stretch: Authorities fail to act |
| At least 14 passengers, who were travelling in a mini-bus, sustained injuries on the killer stretch between Zirakpur and Lalru today. The bus collided with a multi-axle trailer near Dhillon factory light point. |
| 02/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| 14 persons hurt in collision |
| More than 14 passengers, including five women and two children travelling in a mini-bus, were injured after their bus collided with a multi-axle trailer at the Dhillon factory light point here today. |
| 02/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| One killed, two hurt in accidents |
One person was killed while two others were injured in two road accidents near ITI Chowk on the Ambala-Chandigarh highway here today.
In the first incident, an unidentified motorcyclist was killed after he was hit by a speeding car at ITI chowk.
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| 01/12/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Mishap rate high on Zirakpur-Lalru stretch |
The rising number of accidents on the Zirakpur-Lalru road at National Highway-22 in Mohali district has become a matter of concern.
Going by the police records, around 84 persons were killed in 156 road accidents from January to November.
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| 01/12/2009 | Read More.. |
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| 34 killed as bus falls into gorge |
An overcrowded private bus fell into a 200-ft-deep gorge which claimed lives of 34 passengers and left 32 critically injured this morning. The dead include six children, 13 females and 15 males.
According to sources, though the seating capacity of the bus was 32, there were over 66 persons on board, including the roof of the bus.
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| 10/11/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Dire need to have trauma centre |
The major bus accident that claimed lives of 34 persons yesterday has once again brought to the fore issue of lack of trauma centre in the entire region.
The Union Minister of Surface Transport, during the last stint of the UPA government in power, had announced two trauma centres for Himachal — one for Nagrota Bagwan, the constituency of former Transport Minister GS Bali, and other for Rohru, the constituency of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh.
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| 10/11/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Two cars collide as another jumps divider |
| Occupants of three cars had a miraculous escape when a Maruti Alto car being driven by a youngster crashed through hedges over a road separating Sectors 9 and 17 here tonight and landed on the other side of the road.Seeing the car come in front of him all of a sudden, a driver applied the brakes of his car, as a result of which another car crashed into the rear of his vehicle. |
| 14/10/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Five killed in road mishap |
| Five persons, including three migrant labourers, were killed on the spot while two others sustained injuries during the intervening night of October 9 and October 10 when the ambulance van, in which they were travelling, rammed into a truck parked on the Sangrur-Barnala road near Bahadurpur village, about 10 km from here. |
| 14/10/2009 | Read More.. |
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| 3 children, driver injured as auto overturns |
| In yet another incident of negligence, an overloaded autorickshaw carrying DAV School students overturned at Badungar today. |
| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Student falls off overloaded bus, dies |
The overloading of buses once again snuffed out a life when a BTech student fell from such a bus and was crushed to death here today.
The only son of a former Chandigarh police inspector, Hari Bhushan, 23-year-old Vishal Sethi, a resident of Mani Majra, had boarded the bus from the bus stand for his college, Devi Dayal Institute of Management and Engineering, at Barwala.
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| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Pedestrian killed in accident |
Khan Bahadur (24), a pedestrian, was killed in a road accident that took place at Madhya Marg, Sector 8, last night.
The police said Bahadur was crossing the road, when a Mahindra pick-up jeep (CH-03-X-5201), driven by Radhe Sham of Nawasahar hit him from behind.
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| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| 9 feared dead in road mishap |
All nine occupants of a private Scorpio (HP-22-2907) were feared dead when the driver allegedly lost control over it while overtaking another Scropio (HP-33T-9308) near Dawada curve and plunged straight into the Beas at around 2.30 am today.
The police and search parties could not find any trace of the victims or the vehicle and were yet to locate the exact spot of the accident in the surging muddy Beas. |
| 14/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| 27 killed in J&K bus accident |
At least 27 passengers were killed and 22 injured when the bus in which they were travelling skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge at Assar on the Batote-Kishtwar National Highway around 1.10 pm today. The ill-fated bus, which left Doda bus stand around 11.45 am, was on its way to Jammu when the accident took place.
Mubassar Latifee, SP, Ramban, told The Tribune that 21 passengers were killed on the spot, while four others succumbed to their injuries on their way to Batote from Assar hospital. Two passengers later died at the Government Medical College Hospital, Jammu, after being airlifted from Batote.
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| 09/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| 4 die as car hits trees |
| Four young men, including an Italy-based NRI, died when the car they were travelling by hit trees near here on Tuesday night. They were heading for Fatehgarh Churian. The driver of the brand new Tata Safari apparently lost control of it. |
| 03/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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