Fatal accidents in Garhwal Uttarakhand

There is yet again extremely sad news of fatal deaths through two back to back accidents in Garhwal, Uttarakhand.

It seems that Uttarakhand is a cursed state to face these diabolical deaths every alternate day, especially during the monsoon season when unpredictable deaths occur either through the felling of huge boulders on buses and passenger vehicles or through the massive landslides. These deaths also occur due to poor and negligent driving and also because of the driver being in an inebriated state, etc.

Just today at 9.00 AM an ill-fated bus carrying passengers near LAAMBAGADH on Badrinath Highway was badly smashed by a huge boulder falling on it due to a landslide, killing five passengers on the spot. It is learned that the landslide occurred due to excessive rains making the mountain weak leading to massive landslides and resulting in the felling of heavy boulders on the bus.

Another fatal accident occurred in Tehri Garhwal’s Pratap Nagar – Kagsaali – Madan Negi motor road when a Max carrying school children fell in a gorge after the driver lost control, resulting in the unfortunate death of eight children and grievous injuries to six or seven others. All the students were studying in a local public English medium school namely Angels International. All the grievously injured students and the driver have been admitted to a local hospital for immediate treatment. In all about ten children are reported to have been injured with seven in a serious condition.

The emergency teams of police, local administration, and SDRF had reached the accident sites and the bodies retrieved after great efforts.

There had been several fatal accidents in the past in this area but the grievously injured died on the way to the hospital as there are no hospitals to provide timely treatment to the victims of these fatal accidents.

Indeed a sorry state of affairs. The accident that occurred on the Lambagadh area due to falling of heavy boulder on the bus instantly killed five people on the spot. Another seven persons are still stuck inside the bus and are being retrieved. They are badly injured and profusely bleeding. The bus with a good number of passengers was coming from Badrinath Shrine.

May the Almighty be with them and save their lives.