Overview
- Police in Pimpri-Chinchwad confirmed three school-going siblings died in the Hinjewadi crash as the bus driver, found intoxicated, was arrested and remanded to custody until December 4.
- FIRs in the Pune case now also name the bus company owner, a sub‑vendor/manager, and the person responsible for driver safety checks on negligence and culpable‑homicide‑related charges under the BNS and Motor Vehicles Act.
- In Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur, a Delhi-bound private bus hit a truck and caught fire, leaving at least three passengers charred to death and 24 injured, with the driver and conductor unaccounted for as investigators examine eyewitness accounts of downed live wires igniting the blaze.
- In Bhopal, police said a 9‑month‑old died after an e‑rickshaw overturned following a collision with a parked car, and they are preparing a negligence case against the driver after conducting a postmortem.
- Fresh crashes reported on December 3 include four deaths in a wrong‑side truck collision on NH‑44 near Karnal and three deaths in a Hazaribag car crash, while earlier variable casualty reports in the Pune case were clarified by updated police and hospital briefings.