Posted on 09/11/2018 7:53:59 AM PDT by SMGFan
An overcrowded bus plunged into a gorge in southern India on Tuesday, killing at least 55 people and injuring several more, in one of the worst such accidents this year, authorities said.
The bus, part of the state-run network in Telangana, was returning from a hilltop temple in the district of Jagtial, about 190 kms (118 miles) from Hyderabad, the state capital, a district official said.
"The driver lost control and the bus skidded off the road and fell into the valley," a top district official, G. Narendhar, told Reuters. "The majority of the passengers have suffered severe injuries."
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They have a passenger limit ?
India has the world’s deadliest roads, with almost 150,000 people killed in accidents in 2016, the latest government data shows, up 3.2 percent from a year earlier. (Reporting by Malini Menon; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
They are blaming the roads.
Roads don’t kill . Wreckless drivers and speeding kill .
India is the worst country in the world for accidents...
Did you ever watch that Ice Road Truckers series shot in India, Deadliest Roads?
I’m not surprised this happened there. I’d be terrified driving on some of those narrow cliffs.
Whenever I think of India, I feel that the writer of the Thanos character must have had India population in mind, which is why Thanos is so obsessed with killing half of the universe.
How many were on the roof?
WUT? When did they start overcrowding buses and trains there?
Gunga Din needs to start a movement like camera-hogg except banning all buses.
India is known for overcrowded trains and busses. You would think they would learn eventually.
There is a video out there of some assclown standing on the roof of one of the electric trains in the station over there. Doesn’t end well. Don’t know where the video went. Up in smoke maybe.
I have seen the Amazing Race when they visit India.
What’s black and yellow and red all...nevermind...
55 less IRS agents. Eff em.
One of the most mixed up places imho.
As one writer once said "Concerning their most holy river Ganges: it's a very peculiar thing that the Hindus regard as a living god. But as a body of water they dump their industrial waste in it while simultaneously other people are: being baptized in it, bathing & washing in it, urinating & defeating in it, and burning & burying dead human bodies in it - All within sight of each other"
never mind...
By “mixed Up” do you mean disgusting? Saw a video of this family “batheing” in that river while decomposed bodies were floating by. YUK!
It looks like it’s about 15 feet off the highway. How is that “plunging into a valley”?
This I strongly believe is the reason for the big indifference that they have in life and how they seem to nonchalantly accept death & suffering of others around them.
"...how is that plunging..."
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