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Three killed as truck hits bus on Purvanchal Expressway
A truck crashed into a private bus from behind on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district on Thursday morning, killing three passengers and injuring 11. The bus was travelling from…
A truck crashed into a private bus from behind on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district on Thursday morning, killing three passengers and injuring 11. The bus was travelling from Gurugram to Supaul in Bihar when the collision occurred, triggering panic among occupants.
Passenger Ghanshyam Tiwari alleged the bus was parked improperly during a driver change near Agra and was overloaded. Circle Officer Ashutosh Kumar confirmed the death toll and injuries. Police sent the injured to a community health centre in Baldirai and the bodies for post-mortem.
Authorities including the Sub-Divisional Magistrate reached the spot after local residents alerted them. Police are investigating the incident.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Expressway accidents in Uttar Pradesh have prompted multiple court interventions, including a 2023 Allahabad High Court directive mandating reflective tapes on parked vehicles and designated driver-change bays on expressways, though compliance remains patchy. The Purvanchal Expressway, opened in 2021, lacks a formal public bus stop between dedicated rest areas, forcing private operators to stop on the main carriageway for driver swaps, a practice the state transport department warned against in a 2024 circular after five similar rear-end collisions in two years. The overload allegation by passengers, if confirmed, would also violate the Motor Vehicles Act section on seating capacity, which caps a single bus at 50 passengers. The process to watch is the driver's interrogation by Sultanpur police and any FIR the station files under IPC sections 279 and 304A for rash driving and culpable homicide.
Source: indiatoday.in
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