Overview
- A truck struck a Bolero/Tata Ace carrying devotees and a Durga idol on the Samruddhi Expressway near Dhamangaon, killing between five and seven people and injuring about 19–21 others, with police still reconciling differing casualty counts and investigating the cause.
- Two motorcyclists were run over in Gurugram’s Sector 18 after they fell in a collision involving an e‑rickshaw and a tractor‑trolley; police have impounded the tractor‑trolley, filed an FIR and are examining CCTV while efforts continue to trace fleeing drivers.
- A head‑on crash between a private bus and a trailer on the Gorakhpur Link Expressway in Ambedkar Nagar killed four passengers and left several critically injured, with police saying the bus driver may have dozed off.
- A private travel bus overturned on the Ananthagiri ghat road in Vikarabad, Telangana, killing three to four women and injuring others after the driver reportedly lost control and brake failure was suspected, and rescue teams moved injured passengers to nearby hospitals.
- Police responses across the incidents have included FIRs, vehicle seizures, CCTV reviews and transfers of serious cases to higher medical centres, and the Samruddhi crash has renewed scrutiny of the expressway’s safety record, which officials say has seen hundreds of accidents and fatalities since 2022.