Tamil Nadu Road Mishaps

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  4 Killed In Road Accident In Tamil Nadu

  About twenty people, mostly passengers who were injured in the mishap, were shifted to the Chengalpattu government hospital for treatment.

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  6 Kerala Pilgrims, Including 2 Women Killed In Tamil Nadu Road Mishap

  Six people from Kerala on their way to the famous Lord Muruga temple in Palani town in Tamil Nadu were killed and two others seriously injured in a car-lorry collision today, police said.

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  Turned Away By 2 Hospitals, Road Accident Victim Dies In Kerala

  After battling for his life for nearly 7 hours, a 30-year-old man from Tamil Nadu, who was seriously injured in a road mishap, died today following denial of treatment by various hospitals Kollam and in Thiruvananthapuram.

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  Alert Driver Averts Major Mishap, Saves 22 School Kids In Tamil Nadu

  As many as 22 primary school children today escaped with minor injuries as an alert driver of the van which they were travelling in drove the vehicle into a heap of sand to avoid plunging into a 500-feet deep gorge.

• Three Boys Killed in Road Mishap in Tamil Nadu

  Three teenaged boys were killed and as many injured when a bus hit their two-wheelers near Kumbakonam yesterday, police said.

• Four of family killed in road mishap in Tamil Nadu

  Four members of a family returning from a pilgrimage to Tirupati shrine in a car, were killed in a road accident in the wee hours today in Tamil Nadu, police said.

• Five of family killed in mishap in Tamil Nadu

  Five members of a family were charred to death today when their car and a lorry caught fire after a collision between the two vehicles near Virudachalam in the district, police said.

• 60 per cent rise in Tamil Nadu accident deaths in 11 years

  Tamil Nadu has recorded an alarming 60 per cent rise in deaths in road mishaps in the past 11 years, from 9,571 in 2001 to 16,175 in 2012.

• Brave bus driver saves airline crew before dying of cardiac arrest

  The presence of mind of a 48-year-old driver of a luxury bus averted a major mishap, as he brought the vehicle to a halt moments before dying of a cardiac arrest on an arterial road in Chennai today.

• Two Tamil Nadu ministers injured in road mishap

  Tamil Nadu Revenue Minister Thoppu R Venkatachalam and Agriculture Minister S Damodaran and two officials were injured in a road accident in Tiruchirappalli, police said today.

• Two killed, eight injured as bus rams into stationary lorry

  A passenger and the conductor were killed and eight others injured when a state-owned transport corporation bus collided with a stationary lorry at Pallapatti near Madurai on the national highway on Friday, police said.

• 17 children injured road mishap in Puducherry

  Seventeen children travelling to school in an autorickshaw were injured when the vehicle turned turtle after being hit in the rear by a bus.

• Four killed, six seriously injured in two road mishaps

  Four people died on the spot and six were seriously injured in two separate mishaps in the district early Thursday morning, police said.

• Miraculous escape for 25 as portion of bus hangs in air

  Around 25 passengers had a miraculous escape when a bus overshot a parapet wall on a ghat road and its front portion hung precariously in air over a 300-feet deep gorge.

• Tamil Nadu Minister's son critically injured in road mishap

  Tamil Nadu Minister for Cooperation Sellur K Raju's son has been hospitalised here in a 'critical' condition after he was injured in a road accident, the hospital said on Monday. Tamizhmani was admitted to the Apollo Hospital on Sunday with severe brain injury following a road accident, the hospital said in a press release.