Overview
- A private bus traveling from Aurangabad to Ahmedabad struck a parked truck on NH-48 near the Dhavat Chokdi bridge in Vadodara district early Friday.
- Karjan fire crews cut open the bus during a roughly 90-minute operation, with more than 10 injured taken to nearby hospitals and two bodies sent for post-mortem.
- Police have launched a detailed inquiry into the Vadodara collision, examining potential negligence, poor visibility, and the role of a stationary vehicle on the highway shoulder.
- In a separate incident around 5:30 am on the Gondal-Atkot highway in Rajkot district, a car hit a bridge wall, plunged off, and caught fire, trapping the occupants.
- Reports on Rajkot fatalities differ, with PTI citing three deaths and IANS reporting two, as officials send charred remains for forensic identification, according to Deputy SP Naveen Chakravarthy.