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Nashik Gorge Tragedy Tops Spate of Fatal Road Crashes Reported Nationwide

Investigators cite speeding, risky overtakes, tyre failures, treacherous stretches as relief efforts intensify across crash sites.

Overview

  • Six members of a family died when their Toyota Innova plunged hundreds of feet off the Saptashrungi ghat road in Nashik, with disaster teams deployed, the chief minister announcing Rs 5 lakh for next of kin, and the prime minister expressing condolences.
  • Delhi Police arrested a 22-year-old driver after a Santro rear-ended a motorcycle in Shahbad Dairy, killing two 18-year-old students, with a case under BNS sections for rash driving and negligence and blood-test results awaited.
  • Five people were killed in a head-on collision between a car and a heavy trailer in Jashpur, Chhattisgarh, as police registered a case and launched a search for the trailer driver who fled the scene.
  • Four men died and seven were injured on the Kota–Chittorgarh highway when a minivan and then a car struck locals helping an injured couple from an earlier hit, police said.
  • Other deadly crashes were logged across states, including three killed when a car overturned at Nagamangala in Mandya, three killed in Gonda after a suspected tyre burst caused an SUV–bus collision, and two killed in Gurugram when an auto-rickshaw hit a parked truck.