Tragedy struck twice in quick succession on Gujarat roads, with Mehsana’s latest horror claiming five from one family en route from a Rajasthan wedding. The Eco car hurtled into a divider near Unjha’s Unava, overturning and ejecting occupants in a fatal tumble.
The scene was pandemonium: mangled metal, cries echoing, and locals forming a human chain for aid. Police response was prompt, ferrying the critically hurt to hospitals and post-morteming the dead—Ram Lal Kumawat, Komal, Kailash, a toddler, and an aged matriarch.
Survivors number six, battling grave injuries. Investigators eye overspeeding on the straight stretch as a prime suspect, vowing forensic analysis of skid marks and black box data if available.
Days earlier, Valsad’s Kumbhghat—a treacherous hairpin—claimed seven lives in a truck-car smash-up. Amba Jungle residents, five males and two females, were obliterated in the head-on fury; five perished on-site, two in care.
With Gujarat’s accident graph spiking, stakeholders demand holistic reforms: widened lanes at bends, AI-driven speed traps, and grief counseling for kin. These stories of shattered families compel a reckoning on our highways’ hidden perils.