Many injured as bus topples in Karkala
Karkala, July 12: Twenty passengers sustained injuries when a private bus travelling from Karkala to Padubidri toppled near Nandalike on Thursday afternoon.
The incident took place while the bus was negotiating a turn in Nandalike. The driver lost control over the vehicle in the turn and as a result the bus turned turtle.
Conductor of the bus, Rajesh and another passenger is critically injured in the incident. Driver Chetan, passengers Muktha Prabhu from Sanoor, Suraj from Bajagoli and Deeksha from Sooda, Bhaskar, Aarati and Nagesh have been admitted to hospitals in Manipal and Karkala.
Many other passengers sustained minor injuries. A case has been filed in Karkala rural police station.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
