Three people were killed in the Alipur area after the driver of a speeding goods tempo allegedly dozed off and rammed into a flyover pillar, an official said on Saturday. The impact left the vehicle heavily damaged, trapping the occupants inside the cabin.
Police said the accident took place near the Bakoli bus stand in the outer north of Delhi’s Alipur, when the vehicle was travelling towards Mukarba Chowk.
The deceased were identified as Jagdish Singh (50), Yashwant Singh (27), a resident of Nathupura, and Sumit (27), police said, adding that all three were residents of Delhi.
According to police, a PCR call about the accident was received around 4:30 am on Thursday, following which teams from Alipur police station rushed to the spot.
Police said rescue personnel used hydraulic equipment to cut open the mangled cabin and remove the two occupants trapped inside. Another injured man had already been shifted by ambulance to Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital in Narela, police said.
The injured were taken to the hospital, where doctors declared all three brought dead, police said. Their bodies were later sent for a postmortem.
Initial investigation suggests that the driver may have dozed off, leading to the crash. Police said further investigation is underway.
7 Killed in Accident on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway
A passenger bus rammed into a truck and caught fire on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan’s Dausa district early Wednesday, killing seven people and injuring over 15 others, police said.
The accident took place near Dhanawda under the Kolwa police station area. Dausa Superintendent of Police Piyush Dixit told PTI that five victims were charred to death in the blaze, while two others succumbed to severe head injuries.
“The bus was travelling from Rishikesh in Uttarakhand to Indore in Madhya Pradesh when it collided with a truck moving ahead of it on the expressway,” he said.
The bus was operated by Hans Travels of Indore, according to the police. The impact of the collision triggered a massive fire in both vehicles, sparking panic among the passengers.
The injured were rescued and shifted to the Dausa District Hospital for treatment, the SP said.