Three policemen, a doctor and a health worker were injured when two vehicles, including an ambulance, that were part of Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak's convoy collided with each other in Sitapur district on Friday.
The incident took place at Nankari village under Dehat Kotwali police station in the morning when Pathak was on his way to Gola Gokarannath in Lakhimpur Kheri district.
Three police personnel -- Sub-Inspector Pramod Mishra, head constables Inder Dev Singh and Rajveer Singh – besides medical practitioner Arshad Jamal and a health worker sustained injuries in the accident.
"Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak was going from Lucknow to Kheri for a programme. On the way, a police vehicle and an ambulance, part of the convoy, collided, injuring 1-2 people of the medical staff and six police personnel," ASP (North) Sitapur, Dr Rajiv Dixit said, adding that all were out of danger and were stable. Dr Dixit said the deputy chief minister was also safe and had left for his programme.
Shashank Trivedi, the Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Maholi, and Sitapur’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Madhu Gairola went to the district hospital, where the injured persons are admitted.
Trivedi said the two vehicles in Pathak’s convoy collided with each other while trying to save a cyclist. He said the condition of the injured persons was stable.
In a tragic accident on Purvanchal Expressway, four persons were killed when a speeding BMW car and a container collided in Haliapur police station area. Reports said that the BMW car (UK 01C 0006) going towards Lucknow from Azamgarh on Friday afternoon and a container (UP 21 CN 3021) coming at high speed from the opposite side collided head-on.
Due to the collision all four people in the BMW car died on the spot.
The local police immediately reached the spot and sent the bodies for autopsy and shifted the injured to hospital. Efforts were being made to ascertain the identities of the deceased car occupants.
It may be mentioned that as some portion of the expressway has caved in, the vehicles movement has been diverted to one lane and as both the vehicles were at very high speed they collided.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over the loss of lives in the road accident in Sultanpur. He expressed condolences to the families of the deceased.
In another accident in Bareilly, a speeding car ran over six labourers while taking a U-turn on the highway, killing two on the spot. Two youths in the car were also injured in the accident.
On being informed about the incident, the police reached the spot and sent all the injured to hospital. The condition of the labourers was said to be critical.
The accident took place on Nainital highway in Gudwara village of Baheri on Friday morning when the car driver, who was making a video on mobile, took a U-turn at a very high speed. He lost control over the wheels and mowed down the workers sitting at the roadside in front of a sweet shop. The car then rammed into an electric pole.