Police: Bus Crash in Western India Kills 27
At least 27 people died and 17 were injured in western India on Thursday when a local bus slid off a mountain road into a valley, police said.
"The driver lost control after a tempo (three-wheeled vehicle] rammed into the bus along a sharp turn, causing it to fall into a 250-foot (80-meter) valley," local policeman Sangram Singh Nishandar told Agence France Presse.
The accident happened near a popular picnic spot in the Thane district of Maharashtra state, 160 kilometers (100 miles) northeast of Mumbai.
Around 140,000 people were killed in Indian road accidents in 2012 -- which works out to 16 an hour -- according to the government's National Crime Records Bureau.
Bad roads, speeding vehicles and poor driving were among the contributing factors.
Source: Agence France Presse
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