American tourist among three persons injured in road accident in Tiruvannamalai
You don’t have any Active Subscription. Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Your active subscription(s) Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Products you've access to Additional Subscription Benefits Need help with your subscription? Published - November 01, 2026 12:27 am IST - TIRUVANNAMALAI Police said that low visibility on the stretch, due to thick mist in the morning hours, could have been the reason for the accident. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Three persons, including an American tourist, were injured after a car they were travelling in hit an autorickshaw on the Tiruvannamalai–Bengaluru High Road at Manmalai village near Chengam town in Tiruvannamalai on Saturday. Police identified injured persons as Glendy, 51, the American tourist, V. Bila, 29, a cab driver and resident of Kalasapakkam town near Arani, and G. Elumalai, 38, an autorickshaw driver from Nachipattu village near Chengam town. An initial inquiry revealed that Bargavin, 58, and his wife, Glendy, an American couple from California, visited tourist spots such as Yelagiri Hills and Gingee Fort by cab. While they were returning to Chennai, an autorickshaw suddenly entered the stretch from a village road, causing the cab driver, Bila, to lose control of the car and hit the three-wheeler. Three persons were injured in the accident that occurred around 8 a.m. Passersby and other motorists rescued the injured persons and admitted them to Government Taluk Hospital in Chengam before they were referred to Government Medical College Hospital in Tiruvannamalai. Police said that low visibility on the stretch, due to thick mist in the morning hours, could have been the reason for the accident. Further probe is under way. Published - November 01, 2026 12:27 am IST Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.
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Philly professor arrested for blocking delivery robots says she'd do it again
Retired professor has been arrested for blocking a delivery robot in Philadelphia. A 78-year-old retired professor in Philadelphia has vowed to continue protesting delivery robots after she was arrested for repeatedly standing in their way, arguing that her actions were an exercise of free speech and a protest against technology taking over public spaces.Carolyn Marvin, a retired communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said blocking autonomous delivery robots had become a habit since the small, wheeled machines began operating on Philadelphia’s streets and sidewalks.October 14 was not the first time Marvin had placed herself in front of one of the robots. She would stop them for a few minutes as they travelled along the sidewalk carrying food orders.“I was under the impression that I had more rights than the robot did,” Marvin said to CNN in an inerview.The October 14 incident ended with her arrest. Marvin said she had been returning home after getting a flu shot when she encountered a delivery robot. She had a jar of enchilada sauce in one hand and chicken biryani takeout in the other when she stood in front of the machine, as she had done on previous occasions.The incident took place in a busy part of the city, and a larger-than-usual crowd gathered. Some people supported her, while others criticized her. Marvin suspects someone in the crowd eventually called the police.Officers handcuffed her, put her in a police vehicle and issued her a citation for disorderly conduct. Philadelphia police said they had responded to a report of “criminal mischief involving a delivery robot”. When officers arrived, they found a woman “who was refusing to allow a delivery robot to pass”, according to an email from the police department. Officers issued multiple commands asking her to move, but she refused to comply.Marvin said she never expected to be arrested because she believed she was not obstructing another person.“I wasn’t impeding any persons. I was impeding a machine,” she said.She described her actions as a symbolic protest against the problems associated with delivery robots, including the displacement of low-income delivery workers, the physical risks the machines could pose to people using sidewalks and privacy concerns arising from their built-in cameras.“I also think that I have a First Amendment right to protest the abuses of corporations in public space, in the same public space that the robots are occupying,” she said.Marvin said she had previously taken part in protests supporting civil rights and abortion rights, supporting Black Lives Matter and opposing the Gulf and Vietnam wars. 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She added that she did not have unlimited time to spend blocking robots and would do so for 10 or 15 minutes when it was “convenient and possible”.A friend summed up her arrest by telling her: “Well, you got a disorderly conduct charge for impeding capitalism.” Why delivery robots have legal protection Following her arrest, Marvin learnt more about the legal framework governing autonomous delivery devices in Pennsylvania.In 2020, the state legislature passed a law classifying autonomous delivery robots, described in the legislation as “personal delivery devices”, as pedestrians rather than vehicles.The legislation was largely opposed by Democrats, labour unions and accessibility advocates, who argued that allowing delivery robots could threaten jobs and put children and pedestrians at risk. Republicans supported the measure, describing it as an exciting technological development.The law requires vehicles to yield to delivery robots at crosswalks, just as they would to pedestrians, John Mattiacci, a Philadelphia personal injury attorney told CNN.However, the machines are also required to give way to people and cyclists in pedestrian areas.“Personal delivery devices must yield to other pedestrians and pedalcyclists in a pedestrian area,” Mattiacci said.Uber Eats launched its autonomous delivery robot fleet in Philadelphia in March, making the city the fourth in which the company offered robot deliveries. The machines have not been welcomed by everyone. Videos from Philadelphia and other places have shown people sitting on, kicking and vandalising delivery robots.Marvin sees the growing presence of delivery robots as part of a wider trend in which technology and machines are increasingly occupying everyday spaces.“There’s a way in which we’ve surrendered the streets to cars long ago, and I don’t think we should surrender the sidewalks to machines,” she said.“Machines in general encroach on our lives,” she added. “Public space is the most visible place where they’re encroaching on our lives, but they’re going right up the ladder, and lots of people are interested in making that happen.”She said robots were a visible symbol of the wider spread of technology, including artificial intelligence and social media algorithms that influence the images and narratives people consume.Her protest, she said, helps make the issue visible and presents it in a way that might otherwise go unnoticed.Asked whether she planned to resume blocking delivery robots after her arrest, Marvin had a brief answer: “Oh yeah.”This time, however, she said she would keep an eye out for the police.