Two persons were killed while four others sustained injuries when a pickup van rammed into a tractor trolley around 7 am on Friday on National Highway-24. The tractor was loaded with iron girders protruding outside it.
The deceased were identified as Ravi Shankar Mehra, the driver, and the helper Ganpat Mehra, while the four persons sitting on rear seats including Jitendra Mehra, leela Ram , Ram Bhul sustained injuries. The fourth person was a UP police Sub Inspector who took a lift just a few kilometers behind.
The incident took place on NH-24 near Royal College in Kavi Nagar area. The police said that the commuters, who were residents of Patel Nagar in Central Delhi, were going to Nainital in Uttarakhand when the tractor trolley came on to the road via a cut in a divider from another side on NH 24 and suddenly the tractor driver turned his tractor towards left side without giving any signal. due to which the pickup van driver couldn't control the vehicle rammed into trolley from behind. The iron girders which were about five feet beyond the trolley length pierced into the to the pickup van after smashing windscreen. The collision was so severe that the driver and the helper of the van died on the spot, police said.
The impact of accident was so fierce that the persons working on a construction site, quite far away from the accident spot, heard the sound and they informed the control room.
The police, after reaching spot sent the injured people in a nearby Columbia Asia Hospital. One of the passengers Jitendra Mehra lodged a complaint with Kavi Nagar police which named a tractor driver responsible for the accident. A complaint has been lodged and the police seized the tractor and trolley.
“The injured persons are being treated in the hospital and deceased were sent for postmortem. Their family members have been informed about the accident”, said PK Tripathi Inspector of Kavi Nagar police station.