Tag: Truck

  • Maharashtra: 10 dead as truck rams into highway hotel in Dhule

    Maharashtra: 10 dead as truck rams into highway hotel in Dhule

    Ten people were killed and more than 20 injured after a container truck hit four vehicles and then rammed into a hotel on a highway in Maharashtra’s Dhule district on Tuesday, police said.

    The accident took place at around 10.45 am near Palasner village on the Mumbai-Agra highway in Dhule, located more than 300 km from the state capital, a police official said.

    The brakes of the truck failed, following which its driver lost control of the wheels. It hit two motorcycles, a car and another container from the rear side.

    The truck then rammed into a hotel near a bus stop on the highway and overturned, he said.

    “At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 injured,” the official said. The truck was going towards Dhule from Madhya Pradesh.

    However, latest PTI reports suggest at least 15 people have reportedly perished in the accident.

  • History sheeter was stealing vehicle’s battery, police arrested

    History sheeter was stealing vehicle’s battery, police arrested

    Korba. Korba police has arrested the vicious thief who stole the battery from the truck. The arrested accused is also a history sheeter. Action has already been taken on him for stealing batteries from trucks. The name of the vicious scoundrel is Vinod Kumar alias Ashok Sinha. Which has been caught by the Rampur police from the civil line. A total of 8 trailer batteries of different companies have been seized by the police from the accused. The cost of the seized battery is around Rs 1 lakh.

    During patrolling, the Civil Line Police Station received information from the informer in TP Nagar that Vinod Kumar Sinha, a resident of Kashinagar Rampur, had hidden the stolen batteries of vehicles in a bush near Indira Stadium. The accused is looking for a customer to sell the stolen battery. After information, Rampur police reached the spot and took the accused Vinod Kumar Sinha into custody. During interrogation, the accused confessed his crime. Civil line station in-charge Shaurya Pratap Upadhyay said that during interrogation, the accused told to steal all the batteries from TP Nagar from different parked trailer vehicles and keep them hidden in the bush near Indira Stadium. The accused has been arrested under section 41(1-4)/379 and sent to jail on judicial remand. The accused is used to stealing batteries. The monitoring of Chowki Manikpur is also a scoundrel. Against whom dozens of cases are registered in the outpost.

  • Uncontrollable truck collided with three cars and two bikes, girl died due to grip

    Uncontrollable truck collided with three cars and two bikes, girl died due to grip

    Durg. An uncontrollable truck rammed three cars parked on the roadside one after the other on Potia Road in the district. Then two bikes were also caught in the grip. During this, a twenty year old girl present here died. A young man is seriously injured in the accident, whose treatment is going on. Angry mob thrashed the truck driver and then handed him over to the police. Due to this accident on the highway, there was a traffic jam for a long time. The police reached the spot, removed the crowd, then removed the truck and restored the traffic system again. It is being told that the truck driver was drunk and the speed of the vehicle was very fast. Due to which he caught the vehicles one after the other.

    According to the information received, the truck CG 07 H 2107 was going from Durg towards Pulgaon at a very high speed. The vehicle first came on the wrong side near the English liquor shop in Potia and trampled two bikes parked there, then dragged a car and took it to a long distance, which collided with the electric pole there. During this, the bike parked there also came under the truck.

  • Naxalites burnt truck, poklen, road roller and water tanker

    Naxalites burnt truck, poklen, road roller and water tanker

    Kanker. Naxalites have once again created havoc. Naxalites have carried out the incident of arson in vehicles engaged in road construction work around Sitaram under Chhotabetiya police station of Pakhanjur area. Naxalites have set fire to 5 vehicles. It includes 2 Trucks, 1 Poklen, 1 Road Roller, 1 Water Tanker.

    All the vehicles were engaged in the ongoing road construction from Rajamunda to Kopenagunda. Pakhanjur SDOP Ravi Kujur told that “about 5 vehicles have been reported arson”. Being an internal area, not much information is coming out.” However, this is not the first time that Naxalites have carried out the incident of arson. Naxalites set vehicles on fire every day to protest against the road construction work.

  • Car riders were returning home from National Park, uncontrollable truck hit hard

    Car riders were returning home from National Park, uncontrollable truck hit hard

    Kawardha. A speeding truck hit the car in Chilfi Valley of Raipur Jabalpur NH 30. The collision was so tremendous that the car flew away. Three women and the driver of the car were badly injured in the accident. After hitting the car, the accused truck driver fled from the spot. With the help of passers-by, the injured were taken out of the car. Those who have been admitted to Chilfi Health Center for treatment. Chilfi police is looking for the absconding truck driver.

    The injured car riders are residents of Bilaspur. Who had gone to Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh. From where he was going back to his home in Bilaspur. During this, as soon as he reached Chilfi Valley. That’s why the high speed truck coming from the front hit his car from the front. Due to which the car hit the rock behind. The car driver and three women were injured in the accident.

    Dial 112 constable Gangaram Dhurve told that as soon as the point of accident was found, the police team reached the spot and admitted the injured to Chilfi Health Center. The station in-charge was informed about the incident. Then the police personnel reached the spot and removed the accident car from the road. The accused driver is being searched.

  • The condition of 3 including the driver is critical, a major accident occurred due to uncontrolled truck

    The condition of 3 including the driver is critical, a major accident occurred due to uncontrolled truck

    Mohla-Manpur. Between Sitagaon and Aundhi in Manpur block of the district, a truck lost control and collided with a roadside tree. The collision was so tremendous that the truck was blown away. At the same time, 3 people including the driver in the truck have suffered serious injuries.

    According to the information received from the police, on May 23, this incident took place on the main road between Sitagaon and Aundhi near Garhmata temple. The driver of the truck was badly trapped between the steering and the seat after the truck hit the tree. However, the police and the villagers together took out the trapped driver after a lot of effort.

    According to the police, apart from the driver Dinesh Yadav, resident of village Bagdongri, two other villagers, Dushyant Halba, resident of village Rajkatta and Ashok Kumar, resident of village Bagdongri, were in the truck. All three have suffered serious injuries, who have been taken to Manpur Hospital from the spot. However, the Sitagaon police is engaged in the investigation of the incident.

  • Truck loaded with raw sewage is eleventh victim of Smart City!

    Heavy vehicles falling victim to Smart City works continued in Panjim, as on Friday, a rear portion of a loaded sewage suction truck got stuck after a road caved in at St Inez and fell on its side.

    This was eleventh such incident reported since February 6, 2023 at the stretches where works under the Smart City Mission were carried out and also currently are being undertaken by the government.

    The truck loaded with raw sewage was reportedly proceeding from Caculo Mall stretch towards St Inez Church on Friday morning when the incident took place. Raw sewage was transferred into another sewer jetting truck before the fallen truck was removed using a heavy hydraulic crane.

    Fortunately, no one was injured, even the driver of the truck escaped unhurt.

    Such incidents have taken place at St Inez, near the Government printing press, Azad Maidan and the heritage area of Sao Tome in Panjim. In one of the incidents reported at St Inez, four labourers were injured and they had to be admitted to hospital.

  • Wood worth Rs 40 lakh seized from truck

    Wood worth Rs 40 lakh seized from truck

    Foresters of Baikunthapur forest division seized teak wood worth around Rs 40 lakh from the outskirts of Siliguri on Monday morning.

    Sources said that a team of the Belakoba forest range of the Baikunthapur division intercepted a container truck while patrolling on National Highway-27 at Fatapukur, a locality in the neighbouring Jalpaiguri district.

    The container truck was taken to the forest beat office at Mantadari. When foresters searched the truck, they found the timber neatly packed inside.

    The timber had been illegally loaded at Assam’s Guwahati and was supposed to be smuggled to Calcutta, where the container truck had been headed, police sources said.

    Ram Vilas, the truck’s driver, who is from Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested in this connection.

    Buffaloes rescued

    Acting on a tip-off, a team from New Jalpaiguri police station intercepted a truck at Fulbari at the southern end of Siliguri on Sunday night and seized 19 buffaloes from it.

    Mohammad Hussain, the driver of the truck, has been arrested. A police source said that the buffaloes were loaded somewhere in Bihar. The plan was to smuggle the animals across the border to Bangladesh, the source added.

    Leopard trapped

    A leopard was trapped at the Bhatpara tea estate in Alipurduar on Monday afternoon.

    Sources said a few days back, some workers had alerted the forest department that the animal had strayed into the garden. This made the forest department lay a trap in the tea estate and wait for the leopard. On Monday, the animal walked into the cage. Later in the day, foresters took away the leopard. It was then released into the Buxa Tiger Reserve at Rajabhatkhawa, foresters said.

  • Naxalites set the truck on fire, created havoc this morning

    Naxalites set the truck on fire, created havoc this morning

    Narayanpur. Naxal violence continues in Bastar division. For the last 3 months, everyday Naxalites are carrying out one or the other incident. On Friday, Naxalites executed the incident of arson, road block in Narayanpur. Between Kapsi and Farsgaon in the district, a truck engaged in Amadai Mines was set on fire. The truck has been completely burnt to ashes. There is an atmosphere of panic in the area due to the incident of arson. SP Pushkar Sharma has confirmed the incident. The incident is being told between 3 to 4 in the morning. Naxalites first stopped the truck by felling trees on the road. By breaking the diesel tank of the truck, took out diesel and sprinkled it all over the truck and carried out the incident of arson. The truck which was set on fire by the Naxalites was going from Narayanpur to Chhotedongar iron ore.

    https://jantaserishta.com/local/chhattisgarh/naxalites-set-the-truck-on-fire-created-havoc-this-morning-2248887
  • Bus collides with truck, 45 passengers narrowly escape

    Bus collides with truck, 45 passengers narrowly escape

    As many as 45 passengers had a narrow escape as the Volvo bus in which they were traveling, rammed into a truck on the four-lane highway near Garamoda in Bilaspur district today.

    The truck, which was carrying clinker from the Darlaghat cement plant to Ghanauli in Punjab, rammed into a crash barrier.

    Two persons were reportedly injured in the accident. While one had minor injuries, the other, who has been identified as Prateek, was seriously injured and rushed to the Nalagarh hospital.

    It has been learnt that the tourist bus was going from Manali to Chandigarh and hit the truck which was moving ahead of it as the bus driver lost control over the wheel. It has been alleged that the bus driver was over-speeding on the hilly road.

    Deputy Superintendent of Police Raj Kumar said the police had registered a case and started investigation.