Lucknow: Six members of a family died and two are battling for their lives after a private bus being driven on the wrong side of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway for almost 8km crashed into their car on Tuesday.
Police said the car — a Mahindra TUV — was headed for Rajasthan’s Sikar when the accident occurred near Crossings Republic around 6am.
CCTV footage circulated on social media showed the bus trying to swerve to the right to avoid a collision, but ending up crashing into the TUV because the car, too, steered to its left.
The yellow bus — UP16-CT 7835 — is owned by PS Choudhury Tours and Travels. Police said it ferried students of Vishwa Bharti School in Noida earlier, but was now attached with a private firm — Orient Fashions. On Tuesday, the bus still had a sticker of the school pasted on it.
Police identified the deceased as Narendra Yadav (45), who ran an electronics shop in Meerut, his wife Anita, sister-in-law Babita (38), his sons Himanshu (12) and Karkit (15) and niece Vanshika (7). Narendra’s younger brother, Dharmendra (42), and his nephew, Aryan (8), are undergoing treatment for grievous head injuries at a private hospital.
