Death of top Pune spine surgeon Doctor Ketan Sripad Khurjekar in a tragic road accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway has ignited debate on social media about the new Motor Vehicle Act with many people calling for its implementation in Maharashtra.
According to the Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, the higher fines are meant to save lives rather than augment revenue.
"He was admitted to a private hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries today," a police official said, adding that an FIR had been registered at the Sector 39 police station and further probe was underway.
Rajesh Chand was pronounced dead after being found with serious head injuries on Soho Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, on Saturday, the BBC reported.
Speeding car crushes people to death in Delhi's Model Town. The accused driver managed to flee from the spot.
The CBI has recorded the statement of the Unnao rape victim in the case of the road accident, in which she lost her aunts and she and her lawyer were injured, officials said on Monday.
The accident occurred on Ahmedabad-Jaipur national highway near Jhootha Gaon on Saturday night when the bus was on its way to New Delhi from Sanchor, said assistant sub-inspector Mangi Lal posted at Raipur Police Station of the district.
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According to investigating officer Suryakant Pawar, the accident happened around 1.15 a.m. when SUV driver Shahnawaz Bhandari allegedly lost control and rammed the vehicle into a tree near Kashil village on the Mumbai-Mangaluru Highway, around 130 km from Pune.
Six members of a family were killed in a road accident on Pune-Bangalore National Highway in Satara. The accident was reported after the driver of the car lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a tree. The driver of the vehicle and a minor girl have received serious injuries in the accident and are undergoing treatment at a hospital.
After furore over road accident of the Unnao rape survivor, the Uttar Pradesh government has recommended the case for a CBI probe. On Sunday, the rape survivor, her family and lawyer were travelling was hit by an overspeeding truck in Rae Bareli, killing two members and leaving her and the advocate critically injured. The mother of the survivor, who received griveous injuries, said it was a conspiracy to wipe out her family.
Even as the 'conspiracy' theory in the accident of the Unnao rape survivor spins into a major political controversy, Uttar Pradesh Police claims in hushed tones that it was a 'mere accident'. The state government which is in a defensive mode on the issue has already said that it is prepared to recommend a CBI inquiry into the accident in which one witness of the Unnao rape case was killed on Sunday.
In another incident in the same village, a labourer, identified as Arif, was killed on Friday night at a kawar camp along the highway when he accidentally fell in a pan of boiling oil.
The accident occurred on Friday night, killing one person on the spot while three others succumbed to injuries at a hospital, SSP Sachindra Patel said.
In a horrific road accident caught on camera, a car was seen driving through pedestrians in Navi Mumbai. Two people were killed in the accident, while 4 others sustained injuries. The car was later seized in a damaged condition, however, there was no information regarding the arrest of the driver.
Nine college students were killed in a road accident on Pune-Solapur highway late on Friday. The students were reportedly returning from Raigarh in a car at the time of the accident. The driver of the car reportedly lost control of the vehicle at the time of the accident. The deceased students were residents of Yavat village in Pune.
Sixteen people, including eight contract workers from Jharkhand, were killed in two separate accidents in Tamil Nadu, police said Thursday. In both cases, which were reported late Wednesday night, police suspect the drivers had dozed off at the wheel.
A woman was killed and four men were injured after a speeding cluster bus crashed into two auto-rickshaws and one e-rickshaw in central Delhi's Anand Parbat area Monday, police said.
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