Overview
- In Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, a private bus plunged into a deep gorge near Haripurdhar, with reports varying between eight and nine deaths and around 40 injuries as rescue efforts continued.
- In Indore, three people including Prerna Bachchan, daughter of former Madhya Pradesh home minister Bala Bachchan, died when their car struck a truck on the Tejaji Nagar bypass, and police have registered a case and are examining the truck driver’s role.
- Near Tumakuru in Karnataka, four pilgrims returning from Sabarimala were killed and seven injured after their vehicle crashed into a stationary truck on the outskirts of the city.
- Outside Hyderabad, four college students were killed and one injured in a high-speed crash near Mirzaguda, where police said the car hit a tree and preliminary findings point to overspeeding.
- Other incidents during Jan 7–9 included a head-on collision that killed four in Nashik, an overturn that killed three in Jalgaon, a Delhi SUV–taxi crash that killed two, and newly circulated CCTV of a Srikakulam wreck that showed the sequence leading to a family-of-three’s deaths.