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Andhra Pradesh’s road safety crisis resurfaces after a bus plunges off a bridge
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Authorities will face pressure to inspect the NH-44 stretch near Pamidi and explain how a passenger bus and truck ended up in the same bridge collision at 4 am.

The scale of injuries makes this a major transport-safety story, and the NH-44 setting will intensify scrutiny of heavy-vehicle movement and bridge safety. It is also the kind of accident that can quickly become a policy issue if road controls are found lacking.

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The scale of injuries makes this a major transport-safety story, and the NH-44 setting will intensify scrutiny of heavy-vehicle movement and bridge safety. It is also the kind of accident that can quickly become a policy issue if road controls are found lacking.

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A private Volvo bus hit an Eicher truck and fell off a bridge on NH-44 in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district around 4 am Sunday. At least 40 passengers were injured, some critically, near Pogururu village in Pamidi mandal. Police said the bus driver was seriously hurt and trapped passengers were rescued with an excavator before being taken to hospitals in Pamidi and Anantapur.

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Andhra Pradesh’s road safety crisis resurfaces after a bus plunges off a bridge

A private Volvo bus hit a truck and fell off a bridge on NH-44, injuring at least 40 passengers, some critically.

Hindustan Times·19h ago
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