{"id":66763,"date":"2025-02-28T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=66763"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:02:49","slug":"water-tanker-crushes-young-motorcyclist-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/water-tanker-crushes-young-motorcyclist-in-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Tanker crushes young motorcyclist in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a tragic turn of events, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/kwsc-officials-accused-of-fabricating-water-crisis-in-karachi\/\">water tanker<\/a> crushed two motorcyclists near Safari Park, resulting in one immediate death and another receiving serious injury on Karachi&#8217;s University Road.<\/p>\n<p>The incident caused widespread outrage, sparking survival riots from angry citizens who set the water tankers on fire.<\/p>\n<p>This tragic incident comes on the heels of another fatal accident involving a water tanker on February 18. A speedy water tanker hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-govt-introduces-new-speed-limit-for-motorcyclists\/\">motorcyclist<\/a> near Jail Chowrangi, killing the rider, identified as Gulshan Rasheed. The incident led to a violent protest, with citizens setting fire to five water tankers.<\/p>\n<p>Karachi saw this disturbing increase in traffic accidents, wherein 107 fatalities were recorded during just the first 45 days of 2025, affecting 78 men, 14 women, 11 children, and 4 girls. At least 1,493 citizens were reported injured in these accidents.<\/p>\n<p>According to the traffic police, most accidents occurred due to the involvement of heavy automobiles, including dumpers, trailers, and oil tankers.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the police have filed 34,655 challans and arrested 490 bus drivers. Further, to investigate the causes of the road accidents, a four-member committee has been set up to suggest further action for road safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a tragic turn of events, a water tanker crushed two motorcyclists near Safari Park, resulting in one immediate death and another receiving serious injury on Karachi&#8217;s University Road. The incident caused widespread outrage, sparking survival riots from angry citizens who set the water tankers on fire. This tragic incident comes on the heels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26848,26847],"class_list":["post-66763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-motorcyclist-crushed-by-water-tanker","tag-water-tanker-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66765,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66763\/revisions\/66765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}