Overview
- A tempo traveller carrying devotees from Jodhpur’s Sursagar area rammed a stationary trailer near Matoda on the Bharatmala Expressway, with police confirming at least 15 deaths as some local officials cite up to 18.
- Two injured passengers received initial care in Osian and were shifted to Jodhpur via a green corridor, and the bodies have been kept at the Osian government hospital mortuary.
- The Prime Minister announced ex-gratia payments of Rs 2 lakh for each victim’s family and Rs 50,000 for the injured, as the Rajasthan chief minister directed officials to ensure medical support.
- Investigators are assessing speed, darkness and the parked trailer’s position as likely causes, with mechanical and forensic examinations of the vehicles planned.
- Separately over Nov 1–2, two people died and around 14–16 were injured when a tempo fell into a gorge near Nainital, 29 were hurt in a Kumarsain overturn with 28 Nepalese among the injured, and a Firozabad van crash killed two and injured 10.