24 dead, 17 injured as a truck overturns in Ahmedabad district
Ahmedabad, 14 June 2012
24 people are dead and 17 injured as a truck carrying salt and farm labourers overturned near Sachana village on Ahmedabad-Viramgam highway today morning. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has announced compensation of one lakh for adults and 50,000 for minor victims(there are 10 injured children). All farm labourers were going to Dahod from Kutch. Those injured are taken to hospitals in Ahmedabad and Sanand. District Collector of Ahmedabad visited Ahmedabad’s VS hospital and asked hospital authority to help the injured labourers.
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It happens so frequently in Gujarat again and again. No one wants to address the real reason behind the issue.
We let good carrier carry passengers in very unsafe manner. We are poor country and people want to save money but travelling in such dangerous way, on top of trucks filled with goods, is going to cost our lives.
RTO Authority needs to look at the situation across the state and goods carriers should be punished heavily if caught carrying passengers.
Please, someone in authority see the sense. Stop this now. Enough is enough.
42 people in a truck? This highway is extremely dangerous with very little rules being followed on the roads. I was hoping something more than just the compensation. what a pity!!
SORRY for what happened//…. OUR roads are getting better but the people who drive do not follow traffic laws and no traffic sense,,, THIS will continue happen….
NOW someone will blame GOVERNMENT, POLICE can not and will not be there all the time so it is a responsibility of driver and passengers to follow traffic laws….JAY HIND…