One killed as truck rams into tea kiosk in Delhi

August 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A seven-year-old girl was crushed to death under the wheels of a speeding truck here, police said Sunday. Isran was returning home with her brother on a bicycle Saturday night when the truck hit them in Mangolpuri area in outer Delhi, a police officer said.

August 19th, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 25 people were killed and 13 injured when a truck packed with up to 100 people overturned and slipped into a ditch in Central Kalimantan province on the Indonesian part of Borneo Island, a media report said Wednesday. The accident took place Tuesday night when the truck carrying around 100 workers from an oil palm plantation crashed in the district of Sampit, MetroTV reported.

August 19th, 2009 11 killed in truck-bus accident in ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Police say a truck hit a bus head-on in Zimbabwe, killing 11 people including six members of a family returning from a funeral. Rangarirai Mushaurwa, an assistant police commissioner, said Wednesday the truck driver, who was among the dead, was trying to overtake a third vehicle Tuesday night just outside Harare.

July 23rd, 2009 AGARTALA - A sleeping woman and her two daughters were killed when a loaded truck rammed into their road-side house in Tripura, police said Thursday. "Soma Saha, 35, and her two young daughters died on the spot Wednesday night when a loaded truck rammed into their residence where the victims were sleeping at Amtali, located on the outskirts of Agartala," said Deputy Inspector General of Police Nepal Das.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 25-year-old labourer was killed and two others were injured when a concrete mixer truck toppled over them at a construction site in the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium where work was under way for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The truck fell sideways after the soil underneath it became soft due to rain at the multilevel parking construction site around 12.10 p.m.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two motorcycle riders were crushed to death and another injured when a speeding truck hit them in the national capital Monday night, police said Tuesday. Madan (29) and Lovely (23) were on their way back home when the truck trailing them hit their motorcycle in South Extension area in south Delhi around 10:30 p.m.

June 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - At least nine people were killed and several others injured when a truck rammed into a passenger-loaded trekker wagon in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district Tuesday, police said. The accident took place near Baripada town in Mayurbhanj, 270 km from here, at around 11.45 a.m.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A sub-inspector of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed and a head constable injured when a speeding container truck hit their motorcycle from behind in north Delhi, police said Monday. Sub inspector Tejbir, 35, and head constable Sudhir Rana, 30, were returning home on a motorcycle when they were hit from behind by the speeding container truck in the Nangloi area late Sunday.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - One person was killed and 34 injured when a speeding container truck jumped the road divider and collided with a bus in south Delhi early Wednesday, police said. A container truck bearing a Rajasthan registration number hit the Himachal Pradesh roadways bus ferrying 32 people, including the bus driver Joginder Singh and conductor, near the Lajpat Nagar flyover around 5.30 a.m.

May 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 48-year-old man died after a huge container-truck overturned and fell on him in Sangam Vihar area of south Delhi Saturday, police said. 'He (Prakash) was standing nearby when a container-truck turned upside down in Sangam Vihar.

April 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A father-son duo died after being hit by a mini truck when they were going towards Ghitorni village from their house in the capital's Mehrauli area Sunday morning, police said. Dharmesh, 26, and his son, Amit, 4, died on the spot after being hit by the truck around 9 a.m in the morning.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two members of a family were killed and two other critically injured in the capital when a speeding truck hit the motorcycle they were riding and then ran them over, police said Wednesday. The victims were going to a relative's house to attend a birthday party when the incident took place in Libaspur area of outer Delhi Tuesday night, a police officer said.

March 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An 11-year-old schoolgirl was crushed to death and three students were injured Thursday when a speeding mini truck hit them in northeast Delhi, the police said. Meena, a Class 4 student, was knocked down while her two sisters Savita and Suman - both students of Class 2 - and one of their friends were seriously injured when they were returning from their state-run school in Gokulpuri area around 1 p.m., the police said.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 22-year-old man was killed after a truck hit his motorcycle in the capital, but his family alleged that he died because of delay in trauma care as the police were debating the jurisdiction of the accident. Nikki, working in a call centre in the capital, was on his way to office Saturday night when the truck hit him in west Delhi, a police officer said Sunday.

December 26th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Three people were killed in separate road accidents in the capital Saturday. A speeding truck hit a car from behind at Yamuna Vihar area in northeast Delhi early Saturday.