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16 die in RampurHimVani Shimla: Sixteen people including eight women reportedly fied when their vehicle fell into a deep gorge near Rampur on Saturday night. The vehicle was carrying a marriage party from Kullu district. The district administration announced immediate relief of Rs 6,000 to the families of the deceased. The cause of the accident could not be known.
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What can be really done to prevent such pointless deaths?
May I request moderators to provide trendlines of such fatalities with cleara segmentation such as accidents due to rash driving, due poor roads, poor maintenance et al. ?
Temp trax (the passanger small vehicle) and Mahindra Bollero
(goods pickup van) are the deadliest of vehicles on rural roads. These vehicles are mainly involved in road accidents. One main reason is that the drivers of these vehicles are untrained and most of them do not posses proper driving licence. The driver training is imparted on village roads by other drivers and once the learner is through with the basics he grabs the hot seat leaving other traffic at his mercy. In Shimla rural area these drivers are a nucance on road. They drive rashly and follow the age old Indian traffic rule of size and speed matters.
With no proper checking mechanism on rural roads these drivers are playing with the safety of commuters and other drivers on road.
[...] It was tragic to hear the news that 16 people died in a Tempo Trax accident on Saturday night at Bithal near Rampur. 12 of these were couples and were part of a marriage party. They were going to Kumarsain from Nirmand. The accident happened around 8 pm in the night. This vehicle was at the last and so it going missing was not noticed till the time the marriage party had reached its destination. The vehicle had fallen into a gorge and reached the banks of river Satluj. Only one child was saved and the rest 16 perished. The police claims that the tyre of the vehicle came off and was the reason of the accident. [...]