Overview
- Police and hospital reports across outlets put Bihar’s February 1 toll at up to 15 deaths from four separate crashes, with injured victims under treatment at PMCH.
- In Bihta near Patna around 2 a.m., an autorickshaw carrying a family returning from the Maner Urs fair was hit by a truck from the wrong side, leaving six dead including two children; the driver was arrested and the vehicle seized.
- On the Buxar–Ara highway around 5:30 a.m., an SUV heading for a holy dip was crushed between a truck and a tractor in dense fog, killing four occupants from the same district, according to police.
- Separate Bihar incidents included a speeding truck striking a jeep on the Mokama–Sarmera highway, killing three and injuring four, and a Gopalganj collision that killed a father and daughter on a motorcycle.
- Related crashes reported during the same period killed five in Odisha’s Ganjam district and three in Gujarat’s Botad, while a February 2 Indore rickshaw crash injured five and led to the driver’s arrest on suspicion of intoxication.