The manager and driver of a private school in Aligarh were arrested after a seven-year-old girl died falling through a hole in the school bus floor. The family had previously complained about the dangerous condition of the bus.
A man and his two children were killed in Muzaffarnagar after their motorcycle was hit by a school bus. The man's wife is critically injured. Police have arrested the bus driver and seized the vehicle.
An 11-year-old student was killed and four others injured when a roadside Peepal tree fell on a school bus carrying 12 children in Mumbai's Chembur area. The incident has raised questions about civic preparedness and public safety.
A woman village head (sarpanch) was killed and her niece seriously injured after a private school bus hit their motorcycle in Hoshiarpur, Punjab.
Three students were killed while 36 others injured when a school bus fell into a drain after colliding with a jeep near Thatha village on Tuesday morning.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has formed a two-member committee to investigate the fatal tree collapse on a school bus in Chembur, which killed a student and injured four others. An assistant garden superintendent has been suspended for alleged negligence, and the committee is tasked with recommending preventive measures.
Maharashtra's Shiv Sena minister Sanjay Shirsat sparked a political storm with his controversial comments regarding a fatal tree fall incident in Mumbai, which killed an 11-year-old boy and injured four others, initially suggesting such incidents are 'not in human hands' before clarifying his stance.
A bus and lorry collided near Gurupura in Karnataka, resulting in injuries to nine people. The accident is suspected to be due to the lorry driver's negligence, and an investigation is underway.
A 40-year-old school teacher was killed in a hit-and-run accident on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Palghar district, Maharashtra. Police are investigating the incident and searching for the driver.
Due to the impact, the vehicle carrying students was flung a distance away from the level crossing after it hit the running train. The loco pilot managed to stop the train after traversing some distance, police said.
Preliminary reports suggest that the bus overturned while overtaking a vehicle in Kanina town.
Survivors of a bus accident in Karnataka recount the horrific moments after the vehicle caught fire following a collision, describing scenes of panic and the difficulty of rescue efforts.
Mumbai and its metropolitan region are experiencing severe monsoon rains, leading to widespread waterlogging, transport disruptions, and the closure of schools and colleges. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an 'extremely heavy rainfall' alert, with some areas receiving nearly 200 mm of rain in 12 hours, prompting Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to urge residents to avoid non-essential travel.
At least six persons, including a child, were killed when a speeding truck crashed against a luxury sleeper bus that caught fire under the impact in Chitradurga district in the wee hours of Thursday, a senior police official said.
The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Thane has awarded 7.76 lakh in compensation to a man who suffered permanent disability after being injured in a roadside accident in 2015. The tribunal rejected the insurer's claims of contributory negligence and breach of policy conditions.
The bus had gone to Delhi and was plying on the wrong side of the expressway after refilling CNG near Ghazipur border.
A 55-year-old man died after falling into an open manhole in Mumbai during heavy rains, leading to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) suspending four officials and initiating a homicide case against the responsible contractor for alleged negligence.
The bus was carrying 40-45 people and most of those killed were students of elementary classes, aged below ten.
At least 16 students were killed and 18 others injured when the school bus carrying them fell into a canal in Andhra Pradesh's Khammam district on Tuesday afternoon. The bus, carrying students of the LV Reddy school of Vepalagandla village, met with the accident when the driver, while trying to avoid a speeding bike coming from the opposite direction, lost control of the vehicle. The bus fell off a bridge in to the canal.
A private bus carrying students of DAV School, Renuka, fell into a gorge. Seven people -- six schoolchildren and the bus driver -- were killed, Superintendent of Police, Sirmaur, Rohit Malpani said.
A seven-year-old girl died in Palakkad, Kerala after falling from a scooter and being run over by a bus. The accident has sparked protests over poor road conditions.
School was open despite DM's order to the contrary. Orders have been issued to cancel its recognition.
As per the police, the accident was caused due to overspeeding by the bus driver.
. The driver of the bus fled the scene soon after the accident, the official said, adding that efforts were on to nab him.
Six children were on Thursday killed and eight others injured when a school van was hit by a Varanasi-bound passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Mau district.
Most of the victims are school children, officials said, adding that they were returning home after half-a-day at school.
Ten people died and 28 more were injured when an overcrowded mini-bus plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said in Jammu.
Mangled remains of a school bus with blood stains on it, strewn bags, tiffin boxes, notebooks and text books was all that remained at the accident site of the bus-train collision in which 18 persons, including 16 school children, were killed in Telangana's Medak district on Thursday morning.
The deceased children were students of Lucky Convent School in Birsinghpur, police said.
Nine people, including five students, were killed after a private tourist bus hit a state-run KSRTC bus from behind at Vadakkenchery in Palakkad district, Kerala Road Transport Minister Antony Raju said on Thursday.
'In the case of a road accident, prevention is the only answer.' 'There's no cure to death or disability when the accident happens, and when it's due to reckless or negligent driving, it's worse because it's avoidable.'
The Kerala high court on Thursday asked the state government as to what steps can be taken to ensure the safety of citizens on the roads in the wake of a bus accident in Palakkad claiming nine lives, including five school students.
Had the driver of the ill-fated school bus, which met with a tragic accident while crossing the unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district on Thursday, not taken a short cut, lives of 16 children could have been saved, police said.
The bus careened and went down to a field behind the highway, leaving a few passengers slightly injured. Its occupants were brought back to Purulia town in West Bengal for medical treatment, a party leader said.
11 students injured in the bus-train collision at an unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district continue to battle for their life on Friday even as the district authorities and police have begun an inquiry into the mishap.
Twelve children were among 13 killed when a brick-laden truck collided with their school van in Jalandhar district in Punjab on Monday morning. The children, students of a private school, were headed for the school when the mishap occurred near Jaheera village in Lambhra, close to Nakodar, a senior police official said.
If a show about Gujaratis or Indians in the US had to be made, it could have been more authentic, sighs Deepa Gahlot.
'A government whose policies are focused around making the life of ordinary citizens, specially the most deprived sections, richer; a government that prioritises education, health and transport, that doesn't treat its citizens as subjects who must come to it for everything, is rare in our country.' 'When such a government is thrown out, one is left stunned,' notes Jyoti Punwani.
A deadly collision involving a gas tanker and multiple vehicles turned a stretch of the Jaipur-Ajmer highway here into an inferno on Friday morning, killing seven people, injuring more than 35 and engulfing over 30 vehicles in flames as thick black smoke filled the sky.
'I want to tell everybody there is nothing in the world that you can't do.' 'If you apply your mind, you can do anything and everything.'
