Four persons were killed on the spot and 10 others sustained injuries when a tractor fell into a gorge near Burugula village in Pyapili mandal in Kurnool district on Friday.
According to police, the victims have been identified as Varalakshmi (30), Rajeswari (25), Kambagiri Swamy (25) and Obalesh (18). All the victims belonged to Burugupalli village and they were working as farm labourers in agriculture field at Burugula village.
The injured have been shifted to the Government General Hospital in Dhone. The condition of a few victims is stated to be critical. The police said that the tractor driver, which the farm labourers boarded, lost control near a curve at Burugula village and fell into gorge. (INN)
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)
2012/1/19 11:11:09 Six people were killed on the spot and seven others sustained injuries in a road mishap near Gummallakunta in Anantapur district in the wee hours of Thursday.
The mishap took place when a private bus heading towards Hyderabad from Coimbatore lost control and hit a stationary lorry near Gummallakunta. The collision was so intense that the front portion of the bus got complete damanged. The deceased include bus driver Yesupadam, conductor Anand, two Ayyappa devotees and two women.
The injured passengers have been shifted to RTC Hospital at Battanapalli. The condition of two injured persons is said to be critical and they have been shifted to the Government Hospital in Dharmavaram.
Police have registered a case and efforts are on to identify the deceased. (INN)
2011/6/3 9:44:19 Six persons, including three women and one child, were killed on the spot and five others sustained injuries when a State Road Transport Corporation bus collided with an auto-rickshaw near Chittiboinapalli in Chittoor district on Friday.
According to Gurramkonda police, the mishap took place when the RTC bus, heading towards Gurramkonda from Rayachoti rammed into the auto-rickshaw heading towards Cheruvulapalli from Gurramkonda mandal.
All the six persons who were on board the auto-rickshaw were killed on the spot. The mishap left five others with grievous injuries.
The victims have been identified as N Reddymma (29), A Santhareddy (34) A Venkatamma (40), C Jyothi (15) and M Ramaiah (60). The identity of one victim was yet to be ascertained.
All the victims have been shifted to Ruia Hospital in Tirupati for post-mortem. Among the injured, the condition of a few is stated to be critical.
2012/4/25 3:23:49 Hyderabad/Visakhapatnam, April 25 (INN): Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday directed the Visakhapatnam District Collector to order probe into the mishap at a quarry in Singanapalli in which three persons were killed and eight others sustained injuries.
The Chief Minister directed the District Collector to monitor all rescue and relief operations at the quarry of colour stones and provide better medical facilities to all the injured in the hospitals. He also directed the District Collector to order a probe into the mishap and submit a report to him.
According to reports, three labourers killed in the mishap when the earth caved in at Singanapalli in GK Street in Visakhapatnam district on Wednesday. The victims have been identified as Sankara Rao, Balaiah and Balanna. Two persons were still missing and eight others sustained severe injuries.
The police and fire personnel have been pressed into service to rescue the people from debris.
2012/1/13 10:12:49 Four persons were killed on the spot and 10 others sustained injuries when a tractor fell into a gorge near Burugula village in Pyapili mandal in Kurnool district on Friday.
According to police, the victims have been identified as Varalakshmi (30), Rajeswari (25), Kambagiri Swamy (25) and Obalesh (18). All the victims belonged to Burugupalli village and they were working as farm labourers in agriculture field at Burugula village.
The injured have been shifted to the Government General Hospital in Dhone. The condition of a few victims is stated to be critical. The police said that the tractor driver, which the farm labourers boarded, lost control near a curve at Burugula village and fell into gorge. (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)
2012/5/19 6:47:28 Anantapur/Kadapa, May 19 (INN): In a ghastly road mishap, a Karnataka High Court judge was killed and three other members of his family suffered serious injuries here on Saturday.
According to police, the mishap occurred at around 11:30 am near Odulapalli village under Talupula police station limits in Anantapur when the car in which the judge, Justice Govindarajulu (56), was travelling along with his wife and two sons, turned turtle. The car driver is suspected to have lost control of the vehicle while the judge's family was proceeding from Bangalore to a relative’s house in Proddatur when the accident took place, between Kadiri and Pulivendula.
Justice Govindarajulu, his wife and sons were administered first aid in a private clinic in Pulivendula and rushed to the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Kadapa in an ambulance. However, the Judge succumbed to injuries, while his wife and sons are said to be in a serious condition, according to Kadapa Superintendent of Police M K Sinha.
2011/12/5 7:28:31 At least seven Ayyappa devotees were killed on the spot and two others sustained injuries when the Tata Qualis vehicle they were travelling in collided with a tourist bus near coming from the opposite direction near Salem in Tamil Nadu on the wee hours of Monday.
According to Salem police, the victims have been identified as Eedhana Srinivasa Rao, Marella Ramakoteswara rao, Pachibandla Raghupati rao, Bandarupalli Ratnakar Rao, Boda Raghu and Sajjala Srininu. Among the victims—four belonged to Narsaraopeta and three hailed from Satulur in Nadendla Mandal in Guntur district. The injured have been identified as Das and Seshagiri. Their condition is said to be critical.
The police have shifted the bodies to Government Hospital in Salem for post-mortem.
According to police, the mishap took place near Salem district when the Ayyappa devotees were heading to Sabarimalai in Kerala as part of Deeksha in their Qualis vehicle. (INN)
Four persons, including a TDP leader, were killed on the spot and one more person sustained injuries when a car collided head-on with a lorry near Panyam in Kurnool district on Wednesday wee hours.
According to Panyam Circle Inspector Sreenivas Reddy, the mishap took place when the car, heading towards Hyderabad from Kadapa district, collided head-on with a lorry proceeding from Kurnool to Nandyal in the opposite direction. All the persons who died were travelling in the Innova car and they died on the spot.
The victims all belonged to Kadapa district.
They have been identified as Kadapa Telugu Desam Party leader Machireddy Venkataswamy (50), Madanmohan Reddy (45), Mohd Sheriff (30), and a student Vinay Kumar Reddy (21).
Madanmohan Reddy was driving the ill fated car when the mishap took place. The regular driver of the car, Chitti Babu was left injured. He was described as being out of danger.
Machireddy Venkataswamy had recently contested as TDP candidate in the Legislative Council elections from Kadapa. He was also a lawyer.
The victim bodies have been shifted to Government General Hospital in Nandyal for post-mortem.
2011/10/24 2:20:26 Four Telugu people were killed in a road mishap which took place near Detroit area in Southfield City in the United States of America in the wee hours of Sunday.
The victims have been identified as Satyendra Akula (30), native of Bhimavaram, Sumant Rajan (32) of Visakhapatnam, Venkatachalam Pasala (28) of Tadepalligudem and his father-in-law Rajendra Prasad Jonnala (50).
According to delayed reports, the mishap took place when they were returning from Detroit downtown and travelling on M-10 near I-696, a person who was driving on the wrong way came and hit their SUV causing both cars burst into flames at 4:15 AM on Sunday. All the four persons died on the spot when the car caught fire in the fatal crash.
The Southfield Police are investigating the case to get more details if drunken driving was responsible for the gruesome accident. Satyendra, Sumant and Venkatachalam were working as IT Consultants in Detroit. (INN)
2011/9/29 7:42:12 Five labourers were killed and six others were injured in a building mishap here on Thursday. All the deceased and injured hailed from Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.
The incident happened at around 3.30 pm on Thursday when the labourers fell down from the 11th floor after a bamboo scaffolding of a building Siddhivinayak Towers in the Mumbai suburb of Bhayandar, collapsed.
The deceased have been identified as Raju, M Govind, M Naresh, Machappa and Chinappa. They were natives of Kernapally and Chetnapally of Mahabubnagar district. Originally they are farmers, but have migrated to Mumbai as labourers about 15-days ago. (INN)
2012/5/1 7:02:22 Kurnool, May 1 (INN): At least nine persons were killed on the spot when a Toyota Qualis had a head on collision with an oil tanker near Velugodu Reservoir in Kurnool district on Tuesday.
According to police, the victims include four women and a girl child. The victims belonged to a village near Bengaluru of Karnataka. The identity of victims is yet to be ascertained, police said. A few others, who were injured in the mishap, were shifted to Government Hospital in Velugodu.
According to police, the mishap took place when the Qualis car heading from Velugodu to Atmakur in the Nallamalla forests in the Kurnool district had a head-on-collision with an oil tanker.
2011/8/30 11:25:56 Two persons sustained injuries when a gas tanker turned turtle near bypass junction on National Highway No 5 at Anakapalle in Visakhapatnam district on Tuesday.
According to Anakapalle police, the gas tanker heading towards Visakhapatnam from Rajahmundry overturned near bypass junction at Anakapalle injuring the driver and cleaner of the tanker. Fortunately, a major mishap was averted as the gas in tanker was not leaked.
Following the accident, the traffic came to standstill on the national highway and it took lot of time for the police to clear the road. The police diverted traffic on other routes to ease congestion. Both the injured have been shifted to the hospital for treatment and they are said to be stable. (INN)
2011/9/8 4:05:35 At least 20 persons sustained injuries when an APSRTC bus collided with a stationary lorry near Rampalli in Keesara mandal in Rangareddy district. The accident occurred in the wee hours of Thursday.
The police said that the mishap took place when the RTC bus of Kushaiguda bus depot coming from Rampalli RTC colony in Kesara mandal to Secunderabad hit the stationary lorry laden with cement bags from the rear side. In the mishap, the front portion of bus was completely damaged.
Most of the passengers were reportedly asleep when the accident occurred. The injured were immediately rushed to the Gandhi Hospital for treatment. The condition of three injured passengers is said to be critical.
Police said the mishap took place due to bus driver’s negligence. However, police registered a case and started investigations. (INN)
2011/9/19 20:33:04 At least five people were killed and 34 others were injured Monday night in a bomb blast at a market in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar city.
The explosion occurred around 9.00 p.m.
The bomb was planted on a motorcycle outside a CD shop next to the Nishtarabad road, Xinhua reported citing Geo TV.
The blast damaged about 20 shops.
The injured were shifted to the city's Lady Reading Hospital. Five of the injured were in critical condition.
Police said about 10 kg of explosives were used in the explosion.
President Asif Ali Zardari has condemned the attack.
Earlier Monday, eight people, including six policemen, were killed in a suicide car bomb attack outside a senior police officer's house in the southern port city of Karachi.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. (IANS)
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)
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.
2011/9/1 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)
2012/3/1 6:58:03 Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy informed the House that 15,100 people were killed in road accidents during the year 2011 across the State.
Replying to a question raised by TDP MLCs A Narsa Reddy, Ibrahim bin Abdullah Masqati and Dadi Veerabhadra Rao, she said that 42,869 accidents that took place in 2011 and 55,812 persons got injured. In the GHMC limits, 6,491 accidents took place in which 1,717 persons died and 6,144 persons were injured.
She informed the House that certain steps like identification of accident prone areas on National Highways, State Highways and other roads, erection of speed breakers, dividers, radium stickers and zebra cross lines were being taken as road safety measures. (INN)
At least seven Ayyappa devotees were killed on the spot and two others sustained injuries when the Tata Qualis vehicle they were travelling in collided with a tourist bus near coming from the opposite direction near Salem in Tamil Nadu on the wee hours of Monday.
Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy informed the House that 15,100 people were killed in road accidents during the year 2011 across the State.
