Lucknow: Four passengers, including a woman and her daughter, were killed while 11 others were seriously injured in a collision between a Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus and a truck on NH-91 in UP’s Bulandshahr district around 2pm on Friday. The bus with nearly 30 passengers on board was heading to Delhi from Budaun.
ASP, Bulandshahr, Anukriti Sharma, said, “After crossing Bulandshahr’s Kotwali Dehat police station area, the bus reached the NH-91 intersection when a speeding truck, bearing a Nagaland registration number, rammed it from behind on the highway.”
According to sub-inspector Devendra Kumar Shukla, the deceased have been identified as Dhanveer Singh (26), Sauraj Kumar (18), both brothers who used to run a jaggery mill in Budaun district, Naniya (70), a resident of Dibai in Bulandshahr and her daughter Brijbala (35). Brijbala’s five-year-old daughter suffered injuries, but is out of danger.
“Nearly 11 injured passengers were rushed to a local hospital. Two of them were later referred to higher medical centres in Meerut and Aligarh. Four passengers have been confirmed dead by doctors at the hospital and their bodies have been sent for post-mortem,” Shukla added.
SHO of Kotwali-Dehat, Dharmendra Rathore, said, “We have informed the victims’ families. We are yet to receive a complaint in this matter.”
Locals pointed out that the deadly crash was the result of a blind spot on the highway, and similar accidents happened here in the past. They said that Friday’s incident could have been averted if safety measures were in place. “The road intersection where the accident took place has a blind turn and there are no speed breakers on the stretch. Road accidents are common here,” said Ravi Kumar, who runs a shop nearby and was witness to Friday’s accident.
Earlier in the week, a head-on collision between a van carrying five persons and an unidentified vehicle left four persons dead, including two brothers, near Dhanpur village in Dibai of Bulandshahr district. That incident was also due to a blind spot.
Notably, 35 people have lost their lives in road accidents in seven such blind spots in Bulandshahr district in the past six months.
