Road pileup highlights traffic perils in the Valley

Rate of road accidents has remained unchanged in traffic-clogged Kathmandu over the past few years, even as traffic police claim they have tightened surveillance for rule violations.

Two people died and 12 were injured when a passenger bus collided with a van and two two-wheelers at Chhapro, near Pepsicola, in Kathmandu on Sunday morning. The speeding bus with the registration number Ba 3 Kha 4848 veered off its lane, flipped over and rammed into an oncoming pickup truck, a scooter and a motorcycle, police said.