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Crashes with kangaroos and other wildlife are rising across Australia, and a 21% spike in claims reveals exactly when and where you're most at riskAnimal collisions on Australian regional roads are a growing crisis, with claims rising 21% in 2025. Kangaroos and wallabies are the primar...- Pothole deaths rise 53% in 5 years; UP accounts for over half of 9,400 fatalitiesPothole-related road accident deaths have increased by 53% over the past five years, with 9,438 fatalities recorded nationwide between 2020...
- Bengaluru potholes claim life of student near Budigere Cross, 20-year-old crushed by a truck while avoiding bad roadA college student, Dhanushree, died in a road accident near Budigere Cross. A speeding concrete-mixer truck hit her scooter. The driver fle...
- 'You can manufacture safe cars, but India...': Bengaluru IT firm CEO's death after container truck falls on Volvo SUV sparks debate onlineA Bengaluru CEO and five family members died after a container truck crashed onto their SUV. The accident occurred on NH48 near Nelamangala...
- Cargo ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse had power blackout hours before leaving portInvestigators attribute the March collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge to the cargo ship Dali's electrical blackout, caused by ...
- Self-healing roads may soon be a reality: NHAIThe technology allows asphalt, used to build roads, to self-heal and address the issue of potholes, one of the key reasons for road acciden...
- Tamil Nadu: Woman techie dies after her two-wheeler hits pothole, run over by truckA Chennai software engineer died after being run over by a truck as she lost control after allegedly hitting a pothole on the road, informe...
- Bengaluru car driver kills motorbike pillion rider while attempting to navigate potholesThe driver of the car was attempting to maneuver potholes in the Attur Main Road when the vehicle got out of hand and killed Shah, accordin...
- Won't let you start any other project till you complete Mumbai-Goa highway work, HC tells Maharashtra govt"Unless you complete this project, we will not let you start any other project. Let the public reap the benefits of this project first," HC...
- One for the road: This app will alert you of potholes, help prevent accidentsPotholes in India are not only annoying, but claim thousands of lives every year. Bengaluru-based RoadMetrics AI-based solution alerts ride...
- Pothole deaths: Nitin Gadkari warns road contractors of dire consequencesThe minister said the rate of road construction was at 2 km a day when the government took over, but is now it is 28 km a day and added tha...
- Supreme Court takes note of 3,597 deaths due to pothole-related accidents in 2017"We are surprised that state governments have disputed the data sent by them to the MoRTH," the bench said, adding "the views of the states...
- 15 Days to fix 15,000 potholes: Will it last?A senior officer in the Road Engineering Division, who did not want to be named, told this reporter that the immediate concern is to fix th...
- Road mishaps fell 4.1% but deaths rose 3.2% in 2016Although the number of road accidents fell 4.1% from the previous year, the number of deaths rose 3.2%. About 46% of those killed on roads ...
- Sarbananda Sonowal reviews flood situation as death toll reaches 35Prime Minister Narendra Modi after returning from G20 summit called up the Chief Minister from New Delhi over phone and took stock of the s...
- 'Bad roads don't cause accidents always but negligent driving does'At least a two-wheeler rider dies in Bengaluru every day. And, the police attribute it to “rash and negligent riding“ even when poor road i...
- Road agencies may be booked for deaths caused by potholesRoad owning and maintaining agencies maybe penalised and booked under Indian Penal Code for fatalities caused due to poor road condition su...
- Bad roads killed over 10,000 people in 2015; 3,416 deaths due to potholesAlthough the overall fatalities under these categories had come down marginally from 2014, the number of people killed due to potholes rose...
- Assam records lowest number of road deaths in 2014Assam has recorded the lowest number of 43 deaths caused by potholes, speed breakers and humps on roads among all the states in 2014.
- Pathetic saga of road safetyThe only way to curtail India’s ever-rising road accident toll is through an urgent and major overhaul of the regulatory system.
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