jaipur accident

Rajasthan has witnessed a grim series of accidents in just over two weeks, claiming over 45 lives across Jaipur, Phalodi, and the Jaisalmer–Jodhpur highway. Incidents involving dumper trucks, school vans, pilgrim tempos, and a private bus highlight critical issues of passenger transport safety, poor road enforcement, and vehicle negligence.

Vinod Kumar, 32, who was returning after getting admission form for MA (Previous) exam from Kota Open University was hit by a rashly driven bike coming from Bajaj Nagar area at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.

In response to the Jaipur LPG tanker accident that killed 20 people, the petroleum ministry set up a committee to examine design flaws in tanker inlets and outlets and prevent future accidents. Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari emphasized swift action and detailed crash investigations to address systemic issues and enhance road safety.

Fifty-year-old assistant sub-inspector Ram Swaroop Meena has got four of his ribs fractured. Five of his teeth have gotten uprooted. He could not open his left eye. Swelling on his face and his torn uniform are enough signs to describe the fatal accident he met with post Monday midnight, in which he had a close shave with death.

The family of the deceased police constable aspirant who was killed in a road accident on Friday refused to take the victim’s body till their demands were met. The family is asking for monetary compensation and the body is still at SMS hospital. The youth was killed after a speeding luxury car hit him on Sodala elevated road.

All major traffic accidents in the city will now be investigated under the supervision of an ACP (assistant commissioner of police) rank official. The latest order aims to ensure that the accused does not take advantage of a weak FIR to get an easy bail.

Two youths on a motorbike were killed after being hit by a car driven rashly near Bali-Phalna road under Phalna police station area of Pali district late on Sunday evening. Though the police seized the car, the driver has not been arrested yet.

It was a close shave for three persons when the car in which they were travelling skidded off the road and got stuck between drain pipes on a nullah near Gujjar ki Thadi.

A pall of gloom descended in some villages in Hanumangarh's Goluwala area when eleven children were killed and 23 others injured after a school bus carrying them collided with a truck on Tuesday.

Barely three months after Jaipur police decided to close all the four accident police stations, officials are now demanding four more such stations and more power to register FIRs.

Both the accidents at JDA Circle here this week, which claimed two lives and left one injured, had a common reason: speeding. A report by Rajasthan Road Safety Organisation supported by the state government revealed that speeding was the reason for 58% of the accidents.

Two brothers were killed and at least four others were critically injured after a speeding car ploughed into vehicles near JDA Circle on Tuesday afternoon.

The disturbing insensitivity of commuters towards a man and his five-year-old son crying in vain for help after losing his wife and infant daughter in a terrible road accident at the Ghat ki Guni tunnel last Sunday has evoked a strong response from Governor Margaret Alva.

A police constable aspirant was killed on Friday morning when a luxury car hit him on Sodala elevated road in Jaipur due to which he fell off the flyover and landed on the roof of a house below.

Three persons including two women were killed in two different accidents in Jaipur on Friday.According to the accident police station (west), the first mishap took place near an express highway in the Murlipura area where a speeding pick-up vehicle mowed down two women.

Accidents claimed the ives of at least seven people in the state.

A devastating incident on Jaipur's Sikar Road saw an out-of-control dumper truck collide with numerous vehicles, resulting in at least 12 fatalities and multiple serious injuries. The truck, moving at high speed, lost control near Lohamandi, causing widespread panic and chaos. Emergency services responded swiftly to rescue and aid the injured.

Three days after a car plunged into a nullah in Ambabari, the driver’s body was fished out by civil defence teams on Sunday.

Taking cognizance of the LPG cylinder blast incident killing two in a house close to Tadkeshwar Temple situated at Chaura Rasta area in the Walled City, the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) on Tuesday sought a detailed report from Union petroleum and food & civil supplies ministry on the precautions and safety measures taken by the companies supplying LPG cylinders for domestic use.

A doctor employed with a private hospital rammed his speeding SUV into a barricade, injuring two policemen seriously at JLN Marg near Fortis Hospital post Monday midnight. His attempt to flee from the scene was foiled as he was immediately arrested by the police with the help of passers-by.

A speeding Thar jeep driven by a minor crashed into a Sikh community procession in Raja Park, Jaipur, injuring four people. The minor, reportedly the son of a government official, was detained by police. The locals vandalized the vehicle and the Sikh community staged a protest, demanding swift action.