NEW DELHI, Sept 20 (NNN-PTI) – At least seven people were killed and eight others injured yesterday, in a head-on collision between two vehicles, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said.
The accident took place at Boargoan, in Kondagaon district, about 188 km south of Raipur, the capital city of Chhattisgarh.
“Today (yesterday), a collision took place between an auto carrying 15 people and a car, at Boargoan here. Seven people were killed and eight others wounded, some of them critically,” a senior police official in Kondagaon said. “The injured were immediately removed to the nearest hospital, wherefrom they were referred to Raipur.”
According to the official, the victims belonged to a single-family and were returning after attending a condolence gathering.
Police said the impact of the collision badly mangled the auto.
Police registered a case and ordered an investigation to ascertain cause of the accident.
Deadly road accidents are common in India, often caused by overloading, bad condition of roads and reckless driving.
Around 150,000 people are killed every year, in around half a million road accidents across India, officials said
India’s federal minister for road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, recently said, the government set a target to reduce road accident deaths by 50 percent by 2024.– NNN-PTI
