A serious lack of road awareness and vehicle handling once again ended in a fatal crash in Telangana, where an RTC bus rammed into a stationary lorry at Nidigonda, Raghunathapalle mandal, Jangaon district on Sunday, November 16. Two people, including a Hyderabad-based passenger and another from Hanamkonda, lost their lives on the spot, while at least six others suffered injuries. The visuals circulating online show the bus badly twisted from the front, seats ripped apart, and metal crushed like paper — a clear sign of high-impact collision, not a minor oversight.
The repeated pattern of RTC-related crashes in Telangana raises serious questions about driving standards, fatigue management, vehicle maintenance, and basic highway safety discipline. Just earlier this month, on November 3, a TGSRTC bus carrying nearly 70 passengers collided with a heavy tipper truck loaded with crushed concrete at Mirzaguda, Chevella Road, killing 17 passengers and both drivers as they were buried under gravel. When deadly accidents are happening this frequently, it’s no longer “bad luck” — it’s an operational failure that needs accountability, training overhaul, and stricter enforcement.
Public transport is supposed to be the safest choice, not a lottery of life and death, and the silence from authorities after every tragedy signals a disturbingly low priority for commuter safety. Questions must now shift from sympathy to responsibility — Who approved these schedules? Are drivers overworked? Why is a parked lorry left unsecured on a national route? Without factual investigation, legal consequence, and systemic correction, these crashes will continue, and more families will end up in morgues while officials issue the same empty statements.
