Overview
- Two people died and 29 were injured near Jammu when a speeding passenger bus hit an SUV and overturned on the Jourian–Akhnoor road, with police opening an investigation.
- Outside Lucknow’s Janeshwar Mishra Park, a 16–17-year-old died during high-speed motorcycle racing after colliding with a scooter and a divider, as police review CCTV and GoPro footage; the family declined a post-mortem.
- On the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, a speeding car struck two morning walkers and crashed into a roadside pit, killing the women and the driver and injuring a passenger, according to police.
- In Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad, a high-speed dumper truck killed two men and a minor on a motorcycle before the driver fled, leaving the vehicle behind as a search for the accused continues.
- Elsewhere, fatalities and injuries were reported in Jharkhand, Bihar, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Visakhapatnam, with Bihar police seizing vehicles and making arrests in two cases and Delhi police identifying an ITO flyover hit-and-run truck via CCTV and toll data.