Dense smog hampered visibility and led to three instances of pile-ups, involving over 20 vehicles on the Yamuna Expressway resulting in one death and injuries to 22 others on Wednesday.
According to Dankaur station house officer (SHO) Farmud Ali, around 8.30 am a Scorpio vehicle on way from Agra side to Noida rammed into a construction material bag that was placed on the Expressway near an under-construction bridge in Dankaur.
A bus moving behind the Scorpio collided with it and in a series ten more cars piled up resulting in several persons getting injured, he said.
In another incident, on the Noida to Agra side of the Expressway, eight vehicles rammed into each other in a series.
Around eight people were injured, the SHO said. The injured were taken to a private hospital.
“At the time of the accident, there was dense fog and visibility was just 10 metres. The rescue team too had to drive with care,” Ali said. In yet another incident in Jewar, six vehicles collided, he said, adding that no injuries were reported in the collision.
In yet another pile-up in Mathura on the Expressway a dozen vehicles rammed into each other during a dense foggy morning killing one person injuring six others. Circle officer of Mahavan, DSP Alok Dubey said, “One person was killed and six people were injured. All the injured have been sent to district Government hospital for treatment. The deceased is yet to be identified.”
last year, Yamuna Expressway reported four incidents of vehicle pile-up due to dense fog in which 101 vehicles were mangled and 75 people were injured and two were dead.