Srinagar, July 16 -- Seven persons, including a woman, were killed and 17 injured when an overloaded passenger vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in hilly Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. The accident took place on Doda-Bharth road near Ponda, some 30 kms from Doda town, when the driver of a tempo traveller lost control while negotiating a blind curve and the vehicle fell into a gorge. Seventeen persons were shifted to hospital by rescuers and the condition of some of them was stated to be critical. The tragedy is that such news reports are published almost on daily basis and there is hardly any day when someone doesn't die or get hurt in some traffic accident.

The roads in Jammu and Kashmir, particu...