Thirteen persons, including special judge, were killed while more than three dozen suffered injuries in separate incidents of road accidents reported from Kasganj, Auraiya, Etawah and Rampur districts in Uttar Pradesh.
In Kasganj, Special Judge (SC/ST), Anil Kumar Agarwal died when a UPSRTC bus hit the car, he was driving to Badaun from his native home Agra. When he reached near the Kali River Bridge, on Agra-Bareilly Highway, an unidentified UPSRTC bus hit his Toyata car.
The impact was so intense that the car was smashed and Agarwal suffered serious head injuries and multiple fractures in limbs. The villagers rushed to the scene and later a police team also reached the spot. Agarwal was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died during treatment.
The police have registered a case and are tracing the UPSRTC bus which hit the judge’s car.
Meanwhile in another incident, five baratis were killed while 18 others injured when their bus collided head-on with a loader in Achalda village late on Sunday night. The accident occurred at Chiriya when the marriage party was heading towards Ghasara village from Sorikh, in a bus and was hit by a loader which was also ferrying passengers. Due to the impact of collision, both the vehicles overturned and some passengers came under the vehicles and were smashed.
Four passengers and bus cleaner died on the spot while 18 passengers suffered serious injuries and had been admitted to hospital where conditions of a few of them was stated to be critical.
In Etawah, two people were killed and 11 others injured when a UPSRTC bus collided with a truck in Jaswantnagar area on National Highway-2. The UPSRTC bus was carrying 25 people and was heading to New Delhi from Mainpuri. Both the victims were travelling in the bus. Injured had been admitted to the hospital.