About a dozen persons including a pregnant woman going for delivery on ambulance, died in separate road mishaps since Sunday night. In the first incident reported from Mathura, six persons were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents on Yamuna Expressway. Four occupants of a car were killed on the spot late on Sunday night under Surir police station area when the driver lost control and the vehicle landed on the other side of the road where it collided with another car. One of the four deceased was identified as Vigyanshu (30), a resident of laxmi Nagar in Delhi.
Three other persons traveling in the other car also received injuries in the mishap. In another incident, two persons on-way to Agra were killed on Monday morning after their car rammed into a truck parked on the roadside near village Chandpur Khurd under Naujheel police station area on Mathura. A case has been registered and the bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination. Efforts are also on to identify the victims.
In Badaun also, four members of a family were killed and 13 others injured in a road accident in Civil lines area. The incident took place when Arvind (32), his mother Raj Kumari (65), wife Poonam (30) and son Anshu (2) were on their way to a hospital following which a Roadways bus collided with a jeep and dashed into their motorcycle near Naushera in Civil lines area. All four of them died on the spot. As many as 13 others in the jeep were also injured in the accident and had to be rushed to hospital.
In a separate case reported from Muzaffarnagar, a pregnant woman died here after the ambulance in which she was being taken to the hospital for delivery collided with a speeding car on Sunday evening. Three others, including a nurse, sustained injuries in the collision. The woman, Sudesh, complaint of labour pain after which she was being taken to the hospital for delivery when the ambulance collided with the speeding car on the Delhi-Dehradun National Highway near Rampur Tirah. The pregnant woman and the injured were rushed to a hospital where doctors declared her and the foetus dead. The body has been sent for postmortem and the driver of the car which hit the ambulance has been arrested.