The driver of the mixer vehicle, Ajmat Hussain (24), has been booked under sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way) of the Indian Penal Code as well as under sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.
As traffic flow on the highway near Kandari in the Karjan taluka was already impeded due to a container truck breaking down on the Bharuch-Vadodara lane, the trailer, speeding from Bharuch towards Vadodara, struck the five cars and the auto rickshaw, resulting in fatalities and critical injuries, sources said. Gujarat Road Accident: Speeding Trailer Truck Collides With Five Cars and Autorickshaw in Vadodara; Two Killed and Nine Injured.
Four persons were killed and 11 others injured when their private luxury bus rammed into a stationary bus on a highway near Godhra town in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Tuesday, an official said. Gujarat Road Accident: Four Killed, 11 Injured As Luxury Bus Rams Into Stationary Bus on Dahod-Godhra Highway.