Tempo traveller falls in a gorge on national highway at Gangotri in Garhwal, 9 die while 6 injured

Fatal accidents claiming several lives have become a common feature in Uttarakhand. The number of fatalities in these accidents is enhancing day by day and majority of the tragedies are occuring due to the buses, tempo travellers or cars carrying overloaded passengers and felling in deep gorge several meters below after becoming either imbalanced or the drivers losing their controls. The main reasons of these accidents are also the narrow and unrepaired pathways n roads full of pot holes and uncleared landslide prone roads not at all suitable for plying of vehicles like passenger buses. In certain cases the drivers are careless and in inebriated position being the liquor addicts. There had been several accidents n head on collisions due to the drivers either busy on mobile phones while driving or talking to the fellow passengers. Majority of the accidents occur on the narrow turns due to the negligent driving and the speeding vehicles. There is another shocking news today about a tempo traveller carrying over 15 passengers having met with a brutal accident having killed 9 passengers, 8 on the spot n one succumbed to injuries later on. About 6 passengers have been seriously injured. The fatal accident occured on Gangotri national highway about ten kilometres before Bhatwari in Sungar this morning when the tempo traveller arriving towards Uttarkashi fell into the deep gorge after the driver lost the control killing 8 passengers on the spot and one passenger dying later on succumbing to injuries. The dead and injureds were retrived with the help of the local villagers and the police which arrived on the accident spot after some time while the injured have been addmitted in the nearby hospital.