In a tragic accident, a police station incharge in Sitapur died in a road mishap in Fatehpur after his SUV collided head-on with a truck.
The accident took place in the wee hours of Thursday in Ishapur area of Bindki in Fatehpur when the cop was on way to Jhansi to appear in court to give evidence.
The victim, 38-year-old Manish Singh of Sakran police station, was incharge of the police station in Sitapur. The accident took place near a factory in Jajmau's Kallupura on Lucknow-Kanpur highway. The SO's uncontrolled Brezza car jumped over the divider and collided with the truck.
Police constable Prashant (26) was also seriously injured in the accident and shifted to Kanpur Nagar for treatment.
SSP Dinesh Tripathi, ASP Shashishekhar Singh, CO Ashutosh Kumar, Gangaghat Inspector Akhilesh Chandra Pandey reached the spot on getting information of the accident and shifted both the injured but the sub-inspector died on way to hospital.
Meanwhile, two passengers were killed and dozens of others were injured on Thursday morning after an UP Roadways bus collided with a tanker on the national highway near Kuberpur under Etmadpur police station of Agra district. The bus was coming from Firozabad towards Agra carrying 30 passengers when it collided with the tanker at around 6:30 am.
The injured passengers were admitted to SN Hospital in Agra. Four of them are seriously injured.
In Aligarh, a 45-year-old woman was electrocuted to death after coming in contact with a high-tension wire at Deta Kalan village in Pisawan, about 30 km from the district headquarters, police said on Thursday.
The police said prima facie the accident appeared to be caused by the carelessness of electricity department staff. A report was lodged against the staff members concerned and the matter is being investigated.
Pravesh Devi was passing through a field when she came in contact with the broken wire, the police said. She died by the time electricity department staff and villagers reached the spot.
Alleging negligence of power officials in fixing the high-tension wire just four feet above the ground, angry villagers staged a demonstration at the local power sub-station.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate Gabhana Rishab Pundheer reached the spot and diffused the situation by assuring the woman’s family and the villagers that the guilty electricity department staff would be punished after a probe.