As many as 23 passengers, including 11 were seriously injured after a bus collided with an unidentified container truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway near Lonavala on Thursday, the police said.
Over half a dozen trains were diverted on Friday night after the Mysuru-Darbhanga Express collided with a stationary goods train at Kavaraippettai Railway Station near Tamil Nadu's Chennai, leaving 19 passengers injured.
The incident occurred around 8:30 pm on the Chennai-Gudur section between Ponneri and Kavaraippettai railway stations under Chennai division of South Western railway, leading to derailment of 12 coaches of the passenger train.
A passenger train from Mysore to Darbhanga via Perambur collided with a goods train standing at Kavarappettai railway station near Thiruvallur on Friday, the police said.
The accident occurred on Shivpuri Link Road near Vicky Factory area under the jurisdiction of Jhansi Road police station in the district, between 3 and 4 am on Friday, the police said, adding that there were a total of five people travelling in the car.
Maihar SP Sudhir Agarwal said, "In this accident, 17-20 injured have been admitted to different hospitals. 6 people have lost their lives. The bus was going from Prayagraj to Nagpur. The accident occurred when the bus collided with a dumper parked on the roadside."
A road accident occurred here on Thursday morning on the road at the Geeta colony flyover after a young man driving back from Gurugram lost control of his car and collided with the railing.
Two school students died and three students were severely injured after their bus collided head-on with a government bus in Raichur district on Thursday, a senior police official said.
Four members of a family were killed and two others were injured after a truck collided with a car in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah on Wednesday, police said.
The accident occurred near the Kadari area on National Highway (NH)-39 (Jhansi-Khajuraho highway) under the jurisdiction of the civil line police station in the district at around 5:30 am. The devotees were going to Bageshwar Dham.