At least 25 people are dead after a bus carrying wedding guests veered off the road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India.
abc.net.au/news/25-dead-after-wedding-bus-falls-into-indian-gorge/101505708At least 25 people have died after a bus carrying wedding guests veered off the road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India.
Nearly two dozen people were killed in June when their bus plunged into a gorge while en route to a shrine to the Hindu deity Yamuna, north of the state capital Dehradun.India accounts for 11 per cent of the global road death toll despite only having one per cent of the world's vehicles, according to a World Bank report released last year.
The same report estimated 150,000 car crash fatalities in India annually, or one person every four minutes. It added that road crashes cost the Indian economy around $75 billion each year, with medical expenses and loss of income driving many accident survivors into poverty.
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