Synopsis: Despite being declared a national highway in 2018, the road remains like a narrow, ribbon-like winding corridor that has claimed hundreds of lives. Over the past four years, Telangana has witnessed a worrying rise in road accidents, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau and the Telangana Transport Department.

If Telangana’s ‘Road of Blood’ has a codename, it will be NH-163.

Consider this: The 45-km stretch of the National Highway (NH) – 163 between the Police Academy and Chevalla in the Rangareddy district reported 280 fatal road accidents between 2018 and December 2024. On average, the stretch sees six to seven accidents daily.

The latest in the seemingly non-ending series of fatal accidents was reported on Monday, 3 November, when 19 people were killed an

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