In two tragic accidents, half a dozen members of a family were killed in Saharanpur while five members of another family, including three small kids, died in a separate mishap in Baghpat.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed deep grief over the loss of lives in the road accident in Baghpat district. While wishing peace to the departed souls, he expressed condolences to the bereaved families.
In Saharanpur, six people, including four women of the same family, were killed and another woman was seriously injured in a collision between a truck and a van in Behat police station area of the district late on Sunday night.
Saharanpur’s Superintendent of Police (Rural) Suraj Rai said on Monday that Adil (25), his pregnant wife Asma (24), Mashkoor (26) and his wife Rukhsar (27), Rihanna (38), Sultana (35), all residents of village Mirzapur, died in a mishap late on Sunday night while Furkana (38) was seriously injured.
He said that the family came to Saharanpur in a Maruti van to get an ultrasound of Asma (pregnant) conducted as per the advice of the doctor. On the way back home late at night, a truck hit their van on the Delhi-Yamunotri highway.
The van was completely damaged after the collision.
Rai said that Adil, his wife Asma, Mashkoor and his wife Rukhsar died on the spot while Rihanna, Sultana and Furkana were admitted to the district hospital where Rihanna and Sultana died on Monday morning during treatment.
Furkana's condition was said to be critical.
The SP (Rural) said that the truck driver fled after the accident and the police had seized the truck and started a search for the driver.
In Baghpat district, five members of a family, including parents and three girls, died on the spot in a collision between a cantor truck and a motorcycle near the national highway Balaini toll plaza in Balaini police station area on Sunday night.
The deceased were identified as Fateh Mohammad (35), Tabassum (32), their daughters Ilma (8), Iqra (6), Myra (2).
According to reports, Fateh Mohammad along with family members was going from Siwalkhas village in Meerut district to his in-laws’ village when the mishap took place.
The police seized the truck from the spot. The accused truck driver was also arrested.
Additional Superintendent of Police at Baghpat Manish Kumar Mishra said that five people died in the road accident and the police seized the damaged motorcycle and the truck. He identified the truck driver as Irshad of Meerut. The ASP said that a case had been registered against the Canter driver under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, speeding, negligent endangering human life.
Meanwhile, in another mishap in Jaunpur, a speeding truck hit a motorcycle in Kerakat area, killing a youth riding a two-wheeler and his brother-in-law. Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Sanjay Kumar said on Monday that Suraj (24), a resident of Pachwar village, was going to drop his sister Sunita and brother-in-law Shyam Bali (32) by motorcycle on Sunday evening. On the way, a truck coming from Kerakat's side at high speed hit him near the petrol pump at Hurhuri village on the Kerakat-Jaunpur road. Suraj and Shyam Bali died on the way to the hospital while Sunita was being treated in the community health centre.
Kumar said the police had caught the truck driver and action was being taken against him by registering a case.
In another similar accident, a speeding truck hit a scooty in Jansath area of Muzaffarnagar district, killing two youths and injuring another seriously.
Reports said that a speeding truck hit a scooty near Salarpur village on Bijnor-Muzaffarnagar road under Jansath police station on Sunday night.
Scooty riders Ankit (22) and Aditya (23) died in this accident while a youth named Vishwa (24) was seriously injured. He was admitted to the hospital.
According to sources, the three youths were going from Bijnor to Muzaffarnagar. Police sent the bodies for post-mortem.
After the accident, the truck driver abandoned his vehicle and fled.
A case was registered and efforts were on to nab the driver.