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RAIPUR: Killed in a Maoist blast on Sunday, policemen Laxman Bhagat, Aslan Ekka and Bhushan Mandawi were meant to be honoured in their death as martyrs. But on Monday, the small crowd gathered at Dantewada police lines for the guard of honour ceremony was stunned when the coffins of the policemen arrived in a municipal [...]

Buenos Aires, Sep 28 (DPA) At least 14 people died and five were injured in a collision between a lorry and a minibus in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe, the authorities said Monday. The crash happened late Sunday near the town of Villa Ocampo, around 900 km north of Buenos Aires. The truck [...]

Beijing, Sep 4 (IANS) At least 27 people were killed and 36 injured in two road accidents in northeast China Firday, authorities said. In Jilin province, a truck collided with a bus on an expressway near the provincial capital, Changchun, at about 2:50 p.m., leaving 17 people dead and 35 injured, Xinhua reported quoting traffic [...]

Lucknow, Aug 28 (IANS) Five people were killed and seven critically injured when the vehicle they were travelling in ploughed into a stationary truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district early Saturday, police said. The accident took place in Kotwali Nagar area when a Tata Sumo carrying passengers from Agra to Etah rammed into the truck, [...]

Santiago, Aug 26 (IANS/EFE) Hooded assailants intercepted two freight trucks, pulled out the drivers and set the vehicles on fire in a southern town in Chile. The incident took place Wednesday in Araucania region, where ethnic Mapuche Indian activists have torched vehicles, highway toll booths and lumber shipments on earlier occasions as part of a [...]

Panchkula, Aug 21 (IANS) An attempt to smuggle 750 cartons of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) worth over Rs.5 lakh to Gujarat has been foiled and one person arrested from this Haryana town, police said Saturday. The cartons were recovered from a truck during a regular search operation at a police check-post in Panchkula, neighbouring state [...]

Gaya (Bihar), Aug 10 (ANI): Bihar police have seized 12,000 detonators from a dumper truck at Rajapul under Sherghati police station in Gaya District. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a place where the dumper truck was parked and seized the detonators. Two persons, identified as Krishna Sharma and Prabhu Tiwari, were also arrested [...]

Lucknow, Aug 10 (IANS) Five young men were killed and one was injured early Tuesday when the car they were travelling in collided with a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, police said. The accident took place on the Bulandshahr-Delhi road in Salempur area, about 400 km from here. ‘Of the six men, who [...]

A Sydney family had a lucky escape early this morning when a garbage truck crashed into their home in the city’s inner-west. Police say the truck hit a van, then veered off a road, through a fence and into the lounge room of a home at Haberfield. Resident Danny Ford and his wife and two [...]

Chatra (Jharkhand), Mar 30 (ANI): Suspected Maoists burnt four trucks at a coal mine field in Piparwar in Jharkhand”s Chatra District on Tuesday. Around 25 armed cadres of the People”s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) stormed the coal-mining complex of Central Coal Field Limited in Piparwar and set afire four trucks. “The cadres of PLFI [...]

Workers at the Paragon Printing factory at Wodonga prevented police from escorting a truck through their picket line yesterday. The workers have been camped out for over a week to prevent assets being taken from the factory. The company is in administration and its 145 workers have not been paid for weeks. The workers are [...]

The nation’s peak motoring lobby group says state and federal governments need to get more serious about truck safety, especially given the number of trucks on the road is set to triple by 2050. The NRMA says governments should play a role in regulating safety features on trucks to help address the rising road toll. [...]

A 23-year-old truck driver had a miraculous escape at the weekend after his truck rolled near Mullewa and burst into flames. The man was travelling on the Geraldton Mount Magnet Road just after 7:00pm on Friday when he hit a tyre in the middle of the road, causing the trailer to jack-knife. The driver lost [...]

BUSHNELL, Fla. — Four people on two motorcycles have been killed in western Florida after a pickup truck struck both bikes. All four motorcyclists were ejected and one victim was thrown through the windshield of another truck. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a truck driven by 45-year-old Paul Sermons was trying to pass a [...]

Crews took about 14 hours to clean up the scene of a truck rollover on the Mallee Highway in north-west Victoria over the weekend. Police say the B-double truck was carrying frozen meat and vegetables when it overturned on S-bends near Murrayville on Sunday afternoon. Heavy rain hampered the clean-up by Victorian and South Australian [...]