A woman software engineer and an auto driver died when an auto rickshaw in which they were travelling was crushed between two buses on Mahamaya flyover near Noida Sector 44 on Thursday morning, said police. Woman’s colleague was injured in the accident.
The deceased were identified as Pragya Singh, 22, and the auto driver Vinod Kumar. Pragya, along with her colleague Navita Verma, 24, boarded the autorickshaw from her rented accommodation at Sector 51 to reach her office at Sector 126.
According to police, the incident took place as a school bus carrying children coming from Delhi to Noida Sector 44 police post suddenly applied brake following which the auto behind it was crushed by another private bus killing the driver and the woman.
Police said four children of Marigold School in Noida also received injuries in the accident. They were rushed to Kailash Hospital, Noida where doctors declared the duo brought death.
Meanwhile Navita Verma, who received multiple fractures, has been kept into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). The injured children identified as Ashish, Shivam, Sumit and Raghav are undergoing treatment.
Noida Superintendent of Police Dinesh Yadav said that an FIR has been registered against the school bus driver in Sector-39 police station.
“The driver has been identified and a police team has been detailed to arrest the absconding bus driver. Noida police have informed to victim’s family in Patna and the body has been preserved for the autopsy,” police said.
Pragya, who was employed with the HCl, was a resident of Patna where her father Shailendra Pratap Singh is an advocate at the Patna High Court. Auto driver Vinod Kumara was resident of Bulandshahar district.