A 38-year-old man died while another was injured in a road accident on Yamuna Expressway on Friday. Police said that the victims met with the accident when an Innova car rammed into a truck on its way from Agra to Greater Noida. The victims were admitted to a hospital in Greater Noida where one declared dead while condition of other was stated to be critical.
According to the police, the accident occurred early morning when the victims were travelling to Delhi. At 61-km from the zero point near the Jewar toll plaza, the speeding Innova tried to overtake the truck. As it was traveling at high speed, it hit the truck. The driver then seems to have lost control of the vehicle and unable to manoeuvre it, crashed into the truck.
A rescue team from the expressway was alerted and the injured were rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, one of the injured was declared brought dead, while another passenger has been seriously injured. Police have identified the deceased as Nafees Ali Khan (38). Meanwhile, Devesh has been admitted in the hospital ICU with multiple injuries.
The latest accident comes barely two days after a student was killed in an accident, which had also left another student seriously injured in the same area of the expressway. According to the police, the victims, students from AMU, were travelling from Greater Noida to Aligarh via Agra when the motorcycle they were on met with an accident in Jewar area on the e-way.