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Six Gujarat devotees killed as trailer rams car on wrong side in MP
Six youths from Gujarat were killed and one injured when a speeding trailer truck on the wrong side of the road crashed into their van on the Badnawar-Ujjain four-lane highway in Madhya…
The Story in Brief
Six youths from Gujarat were killed and one injured when a speeding trailer truck on the wrong side of the road crashed into their van on the Badnawar-Ujjain four-lane highway in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Sunday afternoon. The victims, from Godhra and Panchmahal, were returning home after visiting the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain.
Police said the impact mangled the van completely. Five died on the spot; the sixth succumbed on the way to hospital. Officials chased and arrested the driver who had fled. The bodies were sent to Badnawar Civil Hospital for post-mortem. The Badnawar police have registered a case and are investigating.
The Indian Opinion
The 'wrong side' crash narrative, while factually correct here, is often used to absolve road engineering failures. Questions of highway design, reflector markers, rumble strips, median dividers on that four-lane stretch, are routinely buried under headlines about errant drivers. The real test is whether the Dhar police and MP transport department will, in their probe, map how many 'wrong-side' accidents occur per kilometre on this highway and publicly share that data, not just file a chargesheet against the arrested driver.
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, freepressjournal.in
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
