Overview
- Rajasthan police confirmed 15 deaths and two serious injuries after a tempo traveller carrying pilgrims hit a parked trailer on the Bharat Mala Highway near Matoda in Phalodi.
- In the Jodhpur crash, victims were returning to Sursagar from a visit to Kolayat, with bodies kept at Osian hospital and the injured moved to Jodhpur via a green corridor.
- Near Jyolikot in Nainital, a Haryana-registered tempo plunged roughly 15 meters into a gorge, killing driver Sonu Singh and Gaurav Bansal and injuring others who were taken to Haldwani’s Sushila Tiwari Hospital.
- Uttarakhand police cited loss of control on a steep, winding stretch as a preliminary finding in the Nainital incident, with SDRF completing overnight rescue operations.
- In Himachal Pradesh, 29 people—mostly Nepalese nationals—were injured when a tempo overturned on NH-5 near Kumarsain after the driver lost control on a sharp curve, with serious cases referred to IGMC Shimla.