Overview
- Two major bus incidents in Chhattisgarh left about 10 dead and more than 40 injured, with police citing suspected brake failure in the Jashpur overturn and preliminary overspeeding in the Balodabazar collision, where death toll reports vary between four and five.
- On the old Pune–Mumbai highway in Maharashtra, a car crossed the median during Shiv Jayanti activities and fatally struck two youths, with a case registered by Kamshet police.
- In Telangana’s Mahabubnagar district, a lorry–TGSRTC bus crash killed the lorry driver and co‑driver and injured around 10 bus passengers, according to police.
- Further fatalities were reported in separate crashes: three in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna, three near Bhubaneswar in Odisha, two in Jharkhand’s Dumka where the truck driver fled after seizure of the vehicle, three in Bihar’s Kishanganj, and multiple deaths in Uttar Pradesh.
- A newer case on March 8 in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, killed a man and left his wife and six‑year‑old son seriously injured after a container truck breached the divider, with the driver at large and the vehicle impounded.