Six drowned as school bus falls into river in Goa on 19 February 2012

A local bus plunged headlong into a river in Aldona, 20 km from Panaji, killing four schoolgirls and two adults on Saturday. A seventh passenger could be missing, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ravindra Yadav said. The bus carrying passengers to the ferry crossing between Aldona and Calvin village rolled down the ferry ramp into the river after the brakes failed.   The ferry was on the other side of the river. Both the driver and...

26 killed in bus accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

 26 people were today killed after a speeding tempo rammed into their stationary bus on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. 17 people were also injured in the incident.The accident occurred at around 1 am when the victims were returning to Pune after attending a wedding in Mumbai. After their bus broke down at Khalapur on the expressway, the group got down and sat on the...

Mumbai-Goa bus accident, at least 37 killed

    At least 37 people were killed when a Mumbai-bound private luxury bus plunged into a river in Ratnagiri district of coastal Konkan area, early today. ...

Ratnagiri Bus Accident: 37 tourists killed, 15 injured, 5 serious in Ratnagiri (Maharashtra)

According to the latest report, 37 people have lost their lives while another 15 stand injured, including five foreign nationals, when a bus plunged into a river in Khed area Tuesday on the Mumbai-Goa highway near here, officials said. Among the victims are at least five foreign nationals but authorities could not confirm whether they were killed or injured in the accident. The accident took place around 3.50 am when the Goa-Mumbai bus...

2 killed as Mumbai-Goa tourist Volvo Bus falls on hilly slope

Two tourists were killed and 48 others were injured when the driver of a luxury Volvo tourist bus running between Mumbai and Goa lost control.The bus fell and stopped at a lower hilly road, because of which rescuers could easily sent them to government and private hospitals in Ratnagiri...

37 tourists killed in Maharashtra accident

 At least 37 people were killed and another 15 injured, including five foreign nationals, when a bus plunged into a river in Khed area today on the Mumbai-Goa highway near here, officials said. Among the victims are at least five foreign nationals but authorities could not confirm whether they were killed or injured in the accident.  The accident took place around 3.50 a.m when the Goa-Mumbai bus belonging to Mahakali...

Accident just before VIP convoy movement in mangalore

A truck that went off the road near Narahari Bettu in Mangalore on Monday.   The movement of vehicles on the Bangalore-Mangalore National Highway was affected on Monday following an accident between a container lorry and a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus near Narahari Betta. The accident gave anxious moments to officials as Chief Minsiter B.S. Yeddyurappa was to pass by that spot. According to bus driver C. Ram,...

30 injured in bus accident in visakhapatnam

Thirty students and some staff accompanying them were injured, when the bus in which they were travelling met with an accident on the Kailasagiri ghat road on Saturday evening. Fiftysix students, 35 of them from...

52 injured in bus accident in Kollam

More than 52 persons were injured when a Thiruvananthapuram-bound KSRTC fast passenger bus lost control and crashed into a shopping complex near the Taluk Office junction here on Wednesday morning. The injured have been admitted to the nearby district hospital. One of those injured, Harison, is critical. He was running a way side tea stall at the accident site. The bus crashed through the tea stall spilling the boiling water...

bus accident, 8 killed and most passengers fell into a lake

At least eight people were killed as a bus carrying 50 passengers, most of them school and college students, fell into a lake in Karnataka today. Around 40 of them were rescued by police and locals. The accident happened around 10 am when the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus, travelling from Sakleshpor near Mangalore to Belur in Hassan district, plunged into the Vishwasamudra Lake. Belur is nearly 200 kms away...

3 die as bus falls into stream in Punalur

A private bus carrying 40 passengers plunged 20 ft into a stream at a sharp turn killing three persons, including two women, and injuring 21 at Poriyikal...

Mangalore: Several injured as buses collide near Kudupu Temple

 Several persons were injured in a head-on collision between two buses near Kudupu Temple here on Tuesday February 5 morning. The accident occured when a Jain Travels bus plying from Karkala to Mangalore rammed into a Pradipta bus moving from Mangalore to Naravi at a turning near the temple. The two bus drivers are among the injured. Around ten persons are said to have sustained serious injuries. Close to 20 passengers reportedly escaped with minor injuries. Two of the injured have been shifted to Tejaswini hospital...

Woman killed, five hurt as goods train rams bus near Mangalore

An eyewitness said the small bus flew like a football on hit by a goods train at Adyar level-crossing, near Mangalore on Sunday. Photo: H.S. Manjunath A 60-year-old woman was killed, and five others, including an eight-year-old child, were injured after a goods train rammed their small bus at an unmanned level-crossing at Adyar on the outskirts of the city on Sunday. The Government Railway Police have identified the deceased...

Two teenagers killed in accidents involving buses in BANGALORE

 A mob set on fire a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus that knocked down a 16-year-old boy on Nagawara Road on Wednesday. The police said that around 10 a.m.,...

15 killed as tempo collides with bus in Karnataka Tumkur on June 27, 2011

Fifteen people were killed Monday when their tempo collided with a passenger bus on the Bangalore-Pune highway near Karnataka''s Tumkur town. “The tragic mishap occurred when the overcrowded tempo collided head-on with a state-run passenger bus while attempting to overtake another vehicle on Bangalore-Pune National Highway Number 4,” Tumkur Deputy...

Eight dead in Karnataka bus mishap, two critical in Hassan, Karnataka.

 Eight people drowned when a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus plunged into Vishnusamudra lake at Belur today, with police and locals rescuing 40 passengers. Eleven passengers were admitted to a local hospital where two were stated to be critical, police said. The bus proceeding from Sakleshpur...

Karnataka: Bus overturns, 30 charred to death

Thirty people, including 15 women and 10 children, were charred to death and 25 others injured when a Karnataka roadways bus overturned and burst into flames near Challakere area of Chitradurga district on Sunday.The mishap in which five men were also burnt alive, occurred at around 2.30 am about 40 kms from Chitradurga.State Transport Minister R Ashok said that according to preliminary reports, the driver's "negligence" could have...

3 Chikmagalur: Five Dead, 29 Injured in KSRTC Bus Accident in Chikmagalur, on Oct25

 Five persons, including a woman, died and 29 others were injured when the Karnataka State Road Transport Coporation bus in which they were travelling rammed into a roadside tree near Birur, 50 km from here on Tuesday October 25. The front portion of the bus was completely smashed in the process. The injured have been admitted to a Hospital in Shimoga and government hospital in Tarikere respectively, police sai...

Bus and truck involved in fatal accident - Karnataka

A villager looks at the accident wreckage on Hiriyur-Bellary Road, which left five people dead on the spot Five people are killed on the spot and many critically injured after a bus collided head-on with a truck near the Eraballi Village in Chitradurga, located about 200 kilometers from Bangalore city. India. 16th December 2011. Five people were killed when bus carrying passengers collided head-on with a truck near Eraballi...

Jammu and Kashmir: 16 Amarnath pilgrims killed in road accident

  Sixteen Amarnath pilgrims lost their lives on Thursday after the truck they were travelling in fell into a gorge near Mansar in Samba district of Jammu. Sixteen others were said to be injured in the accident. The truck carrying the 34 pilgrims, who were engaged in setting a community kitchen at Amarnath, was returning back when it skidded off the road and rolled down deep...

11 killed, 58 injured in road mishap in Udhampur

PTIAn injured boy being shifted to the government medical college and hospital in Jammu, after a passenger bus plunged into a deep gorge in Udhampur district, leaving atleast 7 people killed and nearly 60 injured. The bus skid off the road and fell into the 330-feet deep gorge at Choka Nallah Eleven persons were today killed and 58 injured, seven of them seriously, when an over-loaded mini bus skidded off the road and...

Eight die in Kashmir road accidents Text Size:   At least eight people were killed and 30 injured in two road accidents on the Jammu-Srinagar highway Sunday, police said. In the first accident, seven people died and 29 were injured when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road near Nadini, some 30 km north of here. The dead included...

15 killed, 24 injured in Kashmir road accident

 At least 15 people were killed and 24 injured when a truck fell into a deep gorge in Budhal area of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district early Friday, police said. "The driver lost control over the steering and the truck fell into a 300-feet gorge, killing 15 people travelling in it," a police official said. Among those killed were four infants in the age group of one-two years, he added. Of the 24 injured, the condition ...

16 killed in bus accident in Jammu region

Posted on: 25 Nov 2012  At least 16 people were killed and 44 others injured when a bus carrying a marriage party rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district Saturday evening, police said. The bus was carrying 60 people to Dudu Basantgarh, about 110 km north of Jammu, when it skidded off the road and rolled down into the gorge. 'The bus rolled down about 300 feet into a deep gorge,' said a police...

12 killed in Jammu region bus accident in Jammu on Nov 24 :

At least 12 people were killed and 38 others injured when a bus carrying a marriage party rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district Saturday evening, police said. The bus was carrying 50 people to Dudu Basantgarh, about 110 km north of Jammu, when it skidded off the road and rolled down into the gorge. "The bus rolled down about 300 feet down a deep gorge," said a...

Five People Killed, Dozens Injured in India Bus Accident in orissa

Bus Injuries Buses Involved in Fatal Accidents Bus Injury Statistics 1998-2008 U.S. Department of Transportation Statistics Bus Companies Greyhound Megabus Valley Transit Autobuses Americanos Boltbus Coach America At least five people have been killed and 38 others injured on Thursday when a bus veered off the road and hit a tree, catching alight in India’s Bolanigr district in...

10 killed in Orissa road accident in Bhubaneswar

  At least 10 people, including three women, were killed and 20 injured when a truck hit a private bus in Orissa's Sambalpur district Thursday, police said. The accident took place when a truck collided with the speeding bus at Babubandh village on national highway 6, about 330 km from here, a police official told FacenFacts. While six...

Cop falls off bike on uneven road, run over by truck in thane

An uneven paver-blocked patch on the busy Thane-Belapur road proved fatal for assistant sub-inspector Tukaram Phadtare (52), who was run over by a truck after his motorcycle skidded near Vitawa early on Tuesday. Bad road condition caused the accident, said Prakash Nilewad, senior inspector, Kalwa police station. Phadtare's bike could have slipped on the uneven surface and the truck driver was unable to control his speed and ran over him, said an officer. The police have arrested truck driver Munna Suraman Turi and booked him for negligent...

2 die on way to dahi handi, 246 govindas injured during revelry in MUMBAI

Gokulashtami revelry turned tragic on Thursday with deaths of two govindas in unrelated road accidents. SanketMohite (21) succumbed to head injuries after meeting with a bike accident on way to break a dahihandi. He was riding triple seat from Wadala to Bandra-Kurla Complex when the accident took place. Mumbai's PrashantSatpute, too, died in a bike collision at Kopri bridge in Thane. He was part of Jai Hind MitraMandal from Sion. Across the city, govindas suffered fewer falls this year compared to the previous years. Till Thursday evening,...

Bomb blast at Chandni Chowk in Kolkata creates panic

A 'box bomb' on Friday exploded in the busy Chandni Chowk area in Central Kolkata creating panic in the locality during peak office hours. Police, however, said there was no casualty. They said that a box, which was lying near the crossing of Central Avenue and Madan street, suddenly exploded in the busy area, where people were on way to their offices. Police immediately rushed to the area along with the city police Bomb...

Two killed in Kolkata blast

Two people, including a woman, were killed and several others injured in an explosion that took place in a multi-storey building in the city’s Metiabruz area on Sunday. According to police reports, the blast took place around 9.00 p.m. when at least 15 people, including some women, were working in an embroidery workshop housed in a building. The blast took place at a multi storey building. Two people were killed and seven others were...

06 Malegaon blasts: 9 accused get NIA clean chit in MUMBAI

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday gave a clean chit to nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon serial blasts. In its reply filed before the special court, the agency did not oppose the discharge applications filed by the accused. "It is submitted that the evidence collected by the NIA in further investigations is not in consonance with the evidence collected earlier by the ATS and the CBI. No evidence was found in...

Two dead, 38 injured in blaze at HPCL refinery in vizag

A Some more workers are feared to be trapped under the debris of the cooling tower that collapsed after the fire that raged for nearly an hour before being doused. According to eye-witnesses, the mishap occurred at around 4.30 pm when contract workers were carrying out welding work at the site of the under renovation cooling tower as part of the modernization works at the refinery. Nearly 77 contract workers from three subcontracting...