NEW DELHI, Sept 19 (NNN-PTI) – At least nine people were killed in two separate road accidents in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, in less than 24 hours, police said today.
Five people were killed in Sikar district and four others in Hanumangarh district.
According to police, a car carrying five people hit the divider and fell from a culvert in the Ringas area of Sikar district, about 64 km north of Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan.
“Though the rescuers managed to send the injured to the nearest hospital, the doctors declared them brought dead,” a police official said.
In another accident that took place at Rawatsar in Hanumangarh district, about 360 km north of Jaipur, a car collided head-on with a freight truck causing four deaths.
“Today a car collided with a goods truck at a petrol station in Rawatsar,” a police official said. “In the collision, the car was totally damaged and four people inside it were killed.”
Police have ordered investigations into the cause of the two accidents.
Deadly road accidents are often seen in India, largely blamed on overloading, bad condition of roads and reckless driving.
Indian Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, recently said, the government set target to reduce road accident deaths by 50 percent by 2024.– NNN-PTI
