Overview
- A luxury sleeper bus ploughed into a parked truck near Kotambi on the Vadodara–Halol highway in the early hours of Wednesday, leaving six to seven people dead and about 20–30 injured as NDRF and local teams carried out a heavy rescue effort.
- In Nalanda, Bihar, an overhead 11,000‑volt line made contact with a bicycle tied to a bus roof and electrocuted two passengers while eight more suffered severe burns, prompting a high‑level police inquiry.
- In Bhubaneswar a speeding electric car ran over people at a roadside tea stall after hitting multiple vehicles; the driver surrendered, told police he had taken cough medicine and coughed before losing control, and a breathalyser showed zero alcohol.
- Separate mid‑June incidents in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan included a hit‑and‑run truck on the Bargi bridge that killed a man and his child, a state roadways bus that ran over a family in Moradabad, and motorcycle and trailer collisions in Kushinagar, Bareilly and Jaipur with multiple fatalities and vehicles seized.
- Police across the affected districts have seized vehicles, registered FIRs, carried out post‑mortems and moved injured to hospitals, and investigators are examining speed, parked road hazards, vehicle loads and possible driver impairment as they determine liability and enforcement gaps.