School Van Accident

A 10-year-old student was killed while eight others were seriously injured when their school van was hit by a loading truck in the Araul area here on Thursday, police said.

At least seven school children and the driver of the van in which they were travelling were injured after a school bus rammed into it in southwest Delhi on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

A seven-year-old student suffered minor injuries after a school van carrying around half a dozen children was hit by a vehicle in Greater Noida on Tuesday, police said.

A 30-year-old man and his five-year-old child were killed while four other students got injured, when a speeding SUV collided with the school van in which they were travelling in Nagar Fort area in Tonk district.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today commended 14-year-old Amandeep Kaur for rescuing four children from the burning school van at Longowal town in the Sangrur district. Four minors died in the accident on Saturday.

A 10-year-old girl was killed after a van carrying schoolchildren overturned in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district on Saturday, police said.

An eight-year-old boy was on Tuesday killed and two other students injured in a collision between an overcrowded school van they were travelling in and a speeding auto-rickshaw in north Delhi, police said.

Six school children and a driver were killed while 11 others were injured when a bus collided with a school van at Birsinghpur in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, a police official said.

Himachal Pradesh has banned plying of school vehicles older than 15 years and fixed the age of drivers to 60 to ensure the safety of students, an official said today.

At least 14 school children were were injured and some of them seriously so, when their van collided with a truck on the Kairana bypass road in Shamli district.

The government's directive to schools to sensitise parents on the issue comes after incidents in which the life of students was put in danger by private vehicles due to non-adherence of motor vehicles laws.

A school van, which collided with a milk tanker resulting in the death of a 7-year-old girl and injuries to 17 other students last week, did not have the necessary clearances to ply on the road, a magisterial probe into the accident has found.

In the wake of the death of 13 children after a train rammed into their school van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, the Railways said it will eliminate all level crossings by March 31, 2020.

The school children travelling in a van that crashed into a speeding train in Kushinagar today, leading to the death of 13 children, had repeatedly asked the driver of their vehicle to stop but the man did not listen as he was busy on the phone, a nine-year-old, who survived the accident said.

Kiran Devi, the head of this village in Kushinagar district, is inconsolable. Her three children - Ravi, 12, Santosh, 10 and Ragini, 7 - were reluctant to go to school today morning. They boarded their school van, but only to leave her forever.

A 10-year-old student was killed while eight others were seriously injured when their school van was hit by a loading truck in the Araul area here on Thursday, police said.

At least seven school children and the driver of the van in which they were travelling were injured after a school bus rammed into it in southwest Delhi on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

A seven-year-old student suffered minor injuries after a school van carrying around half a dozen children was hit by a vehicle in Greater Noida on Tuesday, police said.

A 30-year-old man and his five-year-old child were killed while four other students got injured, when a speeding SUV collided with the school van in which they were travelling in Nagar Fort area in Tonk district.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today commended 14-year-old Amandeep Kaur for rescuing four children from the burning school van at Longowal town in the Sangrur district. Four minors died in the accident on Saturday.

A 10-year-old girl was killed after a van carrying schoolchildren overturned in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district on Saturday, police said.

An eight-year-old boy was on Tuesday killed and two other students injured in a collision between an overcrowded school van they were travelling in and a speeding auto-rickshaw in north Delhi, police said.

Six school children and a driver were killed while 11 others were injured when a bus collided with a school van at Birsinghpur in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, a police official said.

Himachal Pradesh has banned plying of school vehicles older than 15 years and fixed the age of drivers to 60 to ensure the safety of students, an official said today.

At least 14 school children were were injured and some of them seriously so, when their van collided with a truck on the Kairana bypass road in Shamli district.

The government's directive to schools to sensitise parents on the issue comes after incidents in which the life of students was put in danger by private vehicles due to non-adherence of motor vehicles laws.

A school van, which collided with a milk tanker resulting in the death of a 7-year-old girl and injuries to 17 other students last week, did not have the necessary clearances to ply on the road, a magisterial probe into the accident has found.

In the wake of the death of 13 children after a train rammed into their school van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, the Railways said it will eliminate all level crossings by March 31, 2020.

The school children travelling in a van that crashed into a speeding train in Kushinagar today, leading to the death of 13 children, had repeatedly asked the driver of their vehicle to stop but the man did not listen as he was busy on the phone, a nine-year-old, who survived the accident said.

Kiran Devi, the head of this village in Kushinagar district, is inconsolable. Her three children - Ravi, 12, Santosh, 10 and Ragini, 7 - were reluctant to go to school today morning. They boarded their school van, but only to leave her forever.