SECUNDERABAD: Tragedy struck on a routine school commute in Telangana as a young girl’s life was cut short by an army truck, plunging her family into despair. The seven-year-old Class 1 pupil at Army School Trimulgherry succumbed on the spot after her mother’s scooter skidded into the heavy vehicle near RK Puram flyover.
Dashcam and CCTV recordings depict the scooter fishtailing before the deadly collision, with the truck’s wheel mercilessly crushing the child. Her critically injured mother was airlifted to a nearby hospital, battling life-threatening wounds.
Nerredmet authorities confirmed the father’s active service in the Indian Army at a Jammu and Kashmir posting. The community near Trimulgherry is united in mourning, demanding thorough probes into the crash dynamics, including road conditions and vehicle speeds.
Echoing the horror, Hyderabad witnessed chaos on Begumpet flyover when a taxi lost traction, crashed into the median, and rolled over, hospitalizing three. The blockage caused hours of delays, with cops attributing it to excessive velocity in congested traffic.
In neighboring Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada, a pharma chemical tanker met a watery grave in an irrigation canal after the driver lost control near AV Nagar. Contamination fears led to an all-out alert: village water supplies suspended, experts dispatched for remediation. The incident raises alarms over hazardous cargo handling on public routes.
From military mishaps to chemical spills, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh roads are proving lethal. This cluster of accidents calls for immediate interventions—mandatory black box installations in trucks, anti-skid treatments on flyovers, and vigilant patrols—to safeguard innocent lives daily navigating these perilous paths.