In a suspected case of hit and run, a one-year-old girl was killed and her mother was injured near Shamshabad bus depot here on Monday.
The woman, who has been shifted to the Osmania General Hospital for treatment, has been identified as Devi, a resident of Mahaboobnagar. Police suspect that they might have been hit and run an unknown vehicle.
Shamshabad police are investigating the case. (INN)
2011/10/24 8:09:34 One person was killed three others injured when the auto-rickshaw they were travelling in was hit by a CRFP bus here on Monday.
The accident happened near Midhani Township when the auto-rickshaw carrying three passengers was hit by a CRPF bus coming from the opposite direction. Consequently, one person died on the spot and was later identified as Sai Kiran (30). The injured were rushed to the Osmania General Hospital for treatment.
Kanchanbabh police registered a case and are investigating. (INN)
2011/9/21 2:02:20 One auto-rickshaw driver was killed and several others injured when they were hit by a RTC bus after the driver lost control due to the failure of breaks.
The mishap occurred on Wednesday morning at Krishna Nagar near Yousufguda crossroads. According to police, the bus driver lost control due to break failure and hit the auto-rickshaw and other vehicles parked on the roadside.
According to police, the deceased has been identified as Mallesh. The police have shifted all injured to Osmania General Hospital and their condition is stated to be out of danger. The mishap took place when the RTC bus was heading towards Kondapur from Secunderabad.
Irked over the incident, the local people stoned the bus. The bus driver went absconding after the accident from the scene.
According to sources, the bus driver was hired on temporary basis due to the RTC employees participating in the general strike. The accident is believed to have occurred due to poor maintenance of bus and lack of understanding of driver of city traffic. Yousufguda police have registered a case. (INN)
2012/3/10 6:46:11 A nine-year-old girl was killed and two others suffered serious injuries when a hut dwelling caught fire in Sai Nagar of Nagole near LB Nagar on Saturday.
The deceased has been identified as Sandhya. According to police, about 200 huts belonging to daily wage labourers were completely burnt in the fire. One hut has reportedly caught fire and soon it spread to other huts turning them into ashes. The exact cause of fire was not yet known. The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment. (INN)
Six killed, seven injured in road accident near Tirupati
2012/4/26 3:14:01 Tirupati, April 26 (INN): At least six persons were killed on the spot and seven others injured when the Qualis they were travelling in rammed into a roadside tree near Mamandur in Renigunta mandal on Kadapa-Tirupati National Highway in the wee hours of Thursday.
According to police, the victims have been identified as Venkateswarlu, Chennaiah, Buddaiah, Narayanamma, Alluraiah and car driver Ravi. All of them belonged to Prakasam district.
The victims board the Qualis vehicle at Errabalem in Giddalur mandal in Ongole to attend a marriage in hill shrine Tirupati. It is suspected that the accident has occurred after the driver lost control on his vehicle while overtaking another vehicle at Mamandur and hit a roadside tree.
The injured have been shifted to SVR Ruia Hospital in Tirupati and a few of them are said to be in a critical condition.
2011/11/28 8:37:33 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed and 57 injured early Monday when two private luxury buses collided in Maharashtra's Buldana district, police said.
The accident took place around 3.30 a.m. on the Mehkar-Sultanpur stretch of the Aurangabad-Nagpur highway, around 300 km from here, when most passengers were sleeping.
"The vehicles caught fire after the collision and at least 12 passengers were burnt in their seats," Mehkar Police Station head B.I. Suryawanshi told IANS.
The injured, of whom 20 are reported to be serious, have been rushed to the Mehkar civil hospital.
"The buses belonged to Royal Travels and Soni Travels. One of them was coming from Nagpur and going to Pune while the other was going to Nagpur," Suryawanshi said.
Locals rushed to assist and helped shift the injured to hospital. The identity of the victims is being ascertained.
2012/1/27 10:12:11 In a ghastly road mishap, three persons were killed on the spot and six others injured at Bakarapeta in Siddampeta mandal in Kadapa district on Friday.
According to police, the accident occurred when a jeep had a head-on collision with a tractor near Bakarapeta in the wee hours of Friday. The bodies have been shifted to the Government Hospital in Kadapa for post-mortem. The identities of the victims are yet to be ascertained. The condition of all the injured is stated to be serious.
According to police, the mishap took place due to negligent driving of jeep driver, against whom a case has already been registered. (INN)
2011/5/23 3:20:44 The newly formed AIADMK government in Tamilnadu had a bad start with one of its Minister M. Mariyam Pitchaih (61) killed in a road accident. Recently, he was sworn in as Environment Minister of the state. He and another Minister Shivapathi were arriving to participate in the oath taking ceremony of the party MLAs scheduled for Monday. While, on their way to Chennai from Tiruchchi, they met with accident near Perembhudhur in which Minister Pitchaih was spot dead and Shivapathi was seriously injured. However, he is said to be out of danger.
2011/10/31 8:12:53 At least four persons were killed on the spot and four others sustained injuries when a car had a head-on collision with an auto-rickshaw near Virupanna Cheruvu in Kottacheruvu in Puttaparthi mandal here on Monday.
According to police, the deceased have been identified as Narayana, Ganganna, Varalakshmi and Baby Pujitha. All the injured have been admitted to Government Hospital in Dharmavaram for treatment. The condition of injured is stated to be critical, according to hospital sources.
The police said that the accident took place when the car heading towards Puttaparthi from Dharmavaram lost control and collided with an auto rickshaw coming from the opposite direction. (INN)
2011/9/1 9:21:00 Two persons have been killed and five others injured in separate cases of road accidents in the Cyberabad Police limits.
One person died on the spot and three others suffered injuries when the Tata Ace vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a speeding RTC bus coming from opposite direction. The accident occurred in the wee hours of Thursday between Nampally and Nagaram village in the limits of Ghatkesar police station. According to police, the deceased, B Madhukar alias Raju was driving the Tata Ace vehicle and he was returning after delivering a Ganesh idol in Ramannapet village when the accident occurred.
All the three injured persons have been shifted to the Gandhi Hospital for treatment and their condition is said to be out of danger. Ghatkesar police registered a case of negligent driving against the RTC driver and started investigations.
In another accident, two scooterists suffered head injuries when the motor-cycle they were riding skidded near Nagaram Road on Wednesday night. According to Keesra police, the scooterists, 24-year-old Sharad Chandra and his friends Mohan Kumar, were immediately rushed to a nearby private hospital where Sharad succumbed to injuries in the wee hours of Thursday. Mohan is still undergoing treatment and is said to be out of danger, Keesra police said. (INN)
Viveka’s son-in-law car dashed motorist, two killed
2011/4/12 20:30:54 Two persons were killed on spot when Minister Vivekananda Reddy’s son-in-law Narra Rajashekar Reddy’s Scarpio dashed their motor cycle on Tuesday night at Saydulu peta village in Thondur mandal in Kadapa district. Rajashekar Reddy and his wife also had minor injured in this accident were shifted to near by hospital in Pulivendhula.
The BJP leader and Mahila Morcha chief Vanam Jhansi was killed in a road accident. Jhansi was coming to Hyderabad when her car collided with another car near Achampet in Mahabubnagar district.
Jhansi was shifted to the Apollo Hospital near DRDL bet breathed her last while undergoing treatment.
2011/2/10 17:44:28 Srikakulam MP Killi Krupa Rani was injured in a road accident on NH-5 highway at Bogapuram in Vizianagaram district, on yesterday evening. Her car was hit by a passing lorry. She and seven others who were traveling in the car sustained minor injuries and were rushed to Care Hospital in Visakhapatnam. Doctors said that all of them were ok.
The Delhi bound New Howrah-New Delhi Kalka train derails near Malwa station (near Fatehpur district) in Utter Pradesh on Sunday noon while it’s running with 100Km/hr speed. More than 35 passengers were killed on the spot and 200 hundred passengers severely injured in the accident. According to unofficial sources the death toll may even more than what the officials declared. 15 bogies of the train were detached from the engine and rammed into each other. Railway Minister Mukul Roy has announced Rs.5 lakhs ex-gratia to the deceased, Rs. 50,000 to severely injured. Rescue operations were in full swing.
The Commissioner of Railway Safety has been directed to probe the incident, said General Manager, North Central Railway H C Joshi aid.
At least Ten people were killed and 85 injured as a EMU train rammed a stationary passenger train near Arakkonam junction in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district Tuesday night, officials said, adding the casualty figures were not confirmed and could change.
The accident occurred as the Chennai Beach-Vellore electric multiple unit train hit the Arakkonam-Katpadi passenger train that was waiting for a signal near Arakkonam, around 85 km from Chennai, at around 9.30 p.m. At least five bogeys were thrown off the tracks in the collision.
Though Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi said the toll could not be confirmed yet, Railway Board chairman Vinay Mittal said at least seven people were killed and 85 injured, citing information from the spot. Police at the spot and Vellore MP Abdul Rehman had earlier spoken of 15 killed.
However, the figures could change, Mittal said at a briefing along with the minister in Delhi.
Terming himself "disturbed" over the incident, Trivedi said he was leaving for the accident site, along with Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa, the Railway Board chairman and other board officials, by the first available flight Wednesday morning.
He also announced ex-gratia compensation of Rs.5 lakh for the dead, Rs.1 lakh for the seriously injured and Rs.25,000 for the others.
Trivedi refused to speak about the cause of the incident, noting it could not be ascertained yet.
"We do not know what exactly had happened... these things take time. But we will not leave any stone unturned," he said.
Noting the driver of the train that hit the stationary train was alive and being treated, he said the driver could tell them on what happened as soon as he was in a condition to do so.
He said he ordered a breath-analyser test of the driver but it came out negative.
Mittal also announced that the rescue efforts at the spot had concluded, and all the trapped passengers had been rescued and admitted to hospital.
Efforts to rescue people trapped in the wreckage had been hampered by the darkness and heavy rain in the area but rescue teams, with the necessary equipment and aided by local people, had completed the task, officials at the spot said.
According to Tamil Nadu Police's Inspector General (Northern Zone) Shailendra Babu, police and fire brigade teams had reached the spot soon after the accident.
The injured were taken to various hospitals in Vellore while teams of doctors had also reached the accident site.
The railways have set up some helpline numbers for aid of the kin of the passengers. Some of the numbers are 044-25352629, 044-25347771, 044-25350308 and 044-25353988.
Meanwhile, some trains passing through Katpadi have been cancelled while some others have been halted at different places. (IANS)
2011/8/21 10:52:33 Two persons including a woman were killed in a gruesome road accident at at Lingojigudem in Choutuppal mandal in Nalgonda district in the wee hours of Sunday.
The deceased, later identified as Manemma and Srinu, were daily labourers in a local factory and hailed from Kondanagulu village in Palamur mandal in Mahbubnagar district. They met with the accident when a speeding Volvo bus, proceeding from Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad, hit them while they were crossing the road.
According to the police, Manemma died on the spot while Srinu succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital. The police have registered a case and started investigations. (INN)
2011/9/15 4:34:26 At least 30 passengers suffered minor injuries when the RTC bus they were travelling in turned turtle near Borlam in Nizamabad district here on Thursday.
According to report, the bus carrying mostly students overturned near Krishna Nagar tanda in Banswada mandal. About 65 passengers were on board when the accident happened. The local police say that the accident happened when the bus heading to Banswada from Hanumanjipeta. The bus driver took a sudden turn in order to save a speeding car coming from the opposite direction.
Fortunately, all the passengers survived the accident with minor injuries. The injured passengers were rushed to Banswada Government hospital where they were treated as out-patients. (INN)
2011/10/15 9:07:38 At least six people were injured, two of them seriously, when a RTC bus lost control and hit many vehicles on the busy Banjara Hills Road here on Saturday evening.
The accident happened when the RTC bus - AP-10 Z-5981 of HCU depot lost control near Pension Office on Banjara Hills Road No 12 and hit one Omni Van, one Maruti 800, one auto-rickshaw and three bikes before coming to a halt. The bus was coming from Kondapur and going toward Koti. The driver fled from the spot after the accident. Source said that the driver was hired by the RTC management due to the on-going general strike.
The seriously injured persons were shifted to a private hospital for treatment. Banjara Hills police registered a case and are investigating. (INN)
2011/10/13 8:27:17 In a case of hit and run, a 26-year-old techie was killed when the bike he was riding was hit by a tipper lorry.
The accident happened at Nampally near Taj Ice Cream outlet late on Wednesday night when the deceased Ehtesam Ahmed Wajahat, a resident of Yakutpura, was returning home from work. He died on the spot.
Ehtesam was an employee of TCS at Gachchibowli.
Nampally police has registered a case against the tipper lorry driver who is absconding. (INN)
2011/11/8 3:03:05 A minor fire accident happens in the sets of Nagarjuna's socio fantasy movie 'Damarukam' movie at Annapurna Studios on Tuesday. However, the unit members bring it under control in a few minutes. No one injured in the accident and there was no major loss to the sets. The shooting was halted for today.
2012/3/20 7:36:50 At least 14 students were feared killed and 25 others sustained injuries when a school bus fell into canal near Tungaram Vagu in Sujathanagar of Chandrugonda mandal in Khammam district on Tuesday.
According to reports, the bus belonging to LV Reddy School located at Vemulagadda of Kottagudem mandal met with the accident while carrying about 40 students to home from school. The driver appears to have lost balance and the bus fell off the bridge by breaking the railings. It fell head-on into the canal which increased the number of casualties.
According to reports, bodies of eight students have already been recovered. Two other students died on the way to hospital. All the bodies have been sent to Government Hospital in Khammam and the identities of the deceased were yet to be ascertained. Among the 25 injured, the condition of four students is stated to be critical.
The Khammam district authorities have launched relief operations to trace the missing students.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy expressed shock and anguish over the bus accident. He asked the District Collector and other officials concerned to rush to the spot and render the required medical assistance to the needy. He also asked the officials to render all assistance to the kith and kin of the deceased children.
The Chief Minister termed the incident as most unfortunate and asked the Collector to enquire into the incident and submit a detailed report. (INN)
The newly formed AIADMK government in Tamilnadu had a bad start with one of its Minister M. Mariyam Pitchaih (61) killed in a road accident. Recently, he was sworn in as Environment Minister of the state. He and another Minister Shivapathi were arriving to participate in the oath taking ceremony of the party MLAs scheduled for Monday. While, on their way to Chennai from Tiruchchi, they met with accident near Perembhudhur in which Minister Pitchaih was spot dead and Shivapathi was seriously injured. However, he is said to be out of danger. 
Two persons were killed on spot when Minister Vivekananda Reddy’s son-in-law Narra Rajashekar Reddy’s Scarpio dashed their motor cycle on Tuesday night at Saydulu peta village in Thondur mandal in Kadapa district. Rajashekar Reddy and his wife also had minor injured in this accident were shifted to near by hospital in Pulivendhula. 
At least 30 passengers suffered minor injuries when the RTC bus they were travelling in turned turtle near Borlam in Nizamabad district here on Thursday.
A minor fire accident happens in the sets of Nagarjuna's socio fantasy movie 'Damarukam' movie at Annapurna Studios on Tuesday. However, the unit members bring it under control in a few minutes. No one injured in the accident and there was no major loss to the sets. The shooting was halted for today.
At least 14 students were feared killed and 25 others sustained injuries when a school bus fell into canal near Tungaram Vagu in Sujathanagar of Chandrugonda mandal in Khammam district on Tuesday.
