Mysore/Mysuru: In two separate incidents, the Police have taken action against riders who masked their vehicle registration numbers with stickers, a clear violation of traffic regulations. The first case involves a scooter rider who affixed a sticker to one digit of the Suzuki Access scooter’s registration number KA-55-EA-6661, mis-leadingly altering it to KA-55-EA-661. V.V. Puram…
Boy killed after coming under tempo traveller
August 12, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A 10-year-old boy was killed while another escaped after coming under a moving tempo traveller vehicle near Abhishek Circle at Hebbal here yesterday evening. The deceased has been identified as Charan Balaji, son of Ramashetty of Hebbal. He was studying in 5th standard at a school nearby. Charan, along with another boy were coming…
Parents beware!
July 28, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A 15-year-old school boy, who is accused of causing an accident, resulting in an Engineering student sustaining serious injuries, has been named in the First Information Report (FIR). According to V.V. Puram Traffic Police, the accused minor, who had brought a four-wheeler inside the SJCE campus, rammed into 19-year-old Manan Arya’s two-wheeler from the…
Two killed in separate road accidents
February 9, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Two persons have been killed in separate road accidents in city. In the first case, Manjula (41), wife of Raja Shetty and a resident of Hootagalli was killed on the spot, when a truck hit her scooter and ran over her near Basava Marga building on Hebbal Ring Road on Tuesday evening. Manjula, who…
Girl student killed in road accident
December 17, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: In a tragic incident, a teenaged girl student was killed after the two-wheeler she was riding crashed into a drainage protective wall on Ring Road in city. The deceased has been identified as Suhani Singh (17), a resident of Hinkal. Suhani was returning home on her scooter (KA-05-KG-9326), after dropping her sister Shubhangi Singh…
Mystery shrouds death of retd. IB Officer in Mysuru
November 5, 2022Police say it is murder, motive not known R.N. Kulkarni (82), who had served as Intelligence Bureau (IB) Officer, Government of India, for over 35 years, was on his routine evening walk in Manasagangothri campus when a car hit him and sped away Mysore/Mysuru: Mystery shrouds the death of former Intelligence Bureau (IB) Officer R.N….
Scooter rider succumbs to injuries
October 30, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: A 73-year-old elderly man, who had sustained serious injuries after he fell from the scooter he was riding, succumbed to injuries on Oct. 26. M.V. Prabhakar (73), a resident of Vijayanagar first stage is the deceased. Prabhakar, who was returning home on his Honda Activa scooter (KA-09-ER-0537) after undergoing physiotherapy at Hebbal on the…
Man injured in accident succumbs at hospital
September 16, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: A two-wheeler rider, who had sustained serious injuries in a road accident and admitted to a private hospital in city, has succumbed to injuries at the hospital. The deceased has been identified as Murugesh (42), a resident of Hebbal Colony in city. On Sept. 14 at about 7.30 pm, Murugesh was proceeding on the…
V.V. Puram Traffic Police avert disaster waiting to happen
July 20, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Following publication of the letter in ‘Voice of the Reader’ column titled ‘Disaster waiting to happen?’ in yesterday’s Star of Mysore, V.V. Puram Traffic Police, this morning, swung into action and regulated the movement of vehicles besides streamlining parking of vehicles. In the letter, the reader had highlighted traffic menace on 2nd Main Road…
Weighty Wheelie
January 7, 2022Wheelie or wheelstand is a vehicle manoeuvre in which the front wheel or wheels come off the ground due to sufficient torque being applied to rear wheel or wheels. But in this case, the goods vehicle did a wheelstand due to excess weight of goods loaded in the rear portion. This freak incident took place…
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