Multiple road accidents across Jabalpur division on New Year's Day resulted in 12 fatalities and approximately 20 injuries. Incidents included a family of four killed in Seoni after a bike collided with a stationary truck, four from another family dying in Katni when a pickup hit their bike, two deaths in Shahdol from a bus hitting a two-wheeler, and an elderly couple killed in Damoh after a car struck a tree. Another accident near Gohalpur injured about 20 people.