{"id":299024,"date":"2018-06-21T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=299024"},"modified":"2018-06-28T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:04:51","slug":"massive-road-accident-in-mp-kills-12-members-of-family-8-others-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/massive-road-accident-in-mp-kills-12-members-of-family-8-others-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Road Accident in MP Kills 12 members of family, 8 others injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299025 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/road-accident-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Twelve members of a family from Gwalior District in Madhya Pradesh were killed and eight others were injured in a massive road accident while they were on their way to attend the last rites of their relative, a police official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The accident took place when a sand-laden tractor-trolley collided with the overloaded jeep carrying 20 people on June 21 morning around 5.30 at a crossroad near Ganjrampur village, in Morena, 456 km from capital Bhopal, Morena Superintendent of Police Amit Sanghi reportedly said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He added that 12 of the victims died on the spot and eight others who sustained injuries in the accident were referred to the district hospital for treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The police also claimed that the insurance of the jeep had expired in September 2014 but the vehicle was registered as a taxi and continued to ferry passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The driver of the tractor-trolley, carrying sand mined illegally from the National Chambal Sanctuary, fled the spot after the accident, Sanghi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said a case has been registered against the driver and a probe is initiated regarding the accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police confirmed five women are among the dead.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve members of a family from Gwalior District in Madhya Pradesh were killed and eight others were injured in a massive road accident while they were on their way to attend the last rites of their relative, a police official said. The accident took place when a sand-laden tractor-trolley collided with the overloaded jeep carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014],"tags":[2815,1043,1464,2816],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299416,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299024\/revisions\/299416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}