Greater Noida: Two people were killed and six others were injured, among them four minors, after Ertiga they hit a stationary truck at Yamuna Expressway near the Toll Plaza Jewar at the early hours of Friday.
The police suspected one who drove the vehicle was asleep on the steering wheel and failed to see the truck parked along the Agra-Noida road from a high-speed corridor, which led to a fatal accident.
The accident occurred around 5 in the morning when Manoj Kumar and his family, along with two of their friends, returned to their homes in Faridabad from their native district of Darbhanga in Bihar.
The impact of the accident was so severe that the savior had to cut the remains of the destroyed vehicle to attract the two bodies trapped in it.
While Manoj, his wife Sanju (38) and four of their sons – Sachin (17), Prem (11) and Vijay (5) – sustainable injury in an accident, two friends – Amit, who was driving Ertiga, and Suresh aged 60 years sitting on Home – lose their lives.
Manoj, a repairman for AC, and his family has lived in Faridabad for the past 10 years.
Sho Jewar Umesh Bahadur told Toi that Ertiga hit the truck parked from behind maybe because Amit had fallen asleep on the wheel because of a long journey.
“Ertiga hit a truck and then jumped to divide the toll road near the Toll Plaza Plaza.
The vehicle seems to be traveling at a very high speed,” he said.
In fact, the accident was very severe that Ertiga could not be separated from the truck to official rescue team officials from the toll road must cut the parts of the vehicle to remove the body of Amit and Suresh from within.
The other in the back seat of the vehicle must also be withdrawn with a lot of effort.
The victims rushed to Kailash Hospital in Jiwar, where Amit and Suresh were declared dead on arrival.
Police Jewar claimed to have won the truck whose driver parked him to rest but did not place the caution barricade around the vehicle.
“The driver was not found.
We tried to identify him and truck owners.
A fired fired against an unknown truck driver,” Sho Bahadur said.
In another accident, the car that presented a fall into a ditch that produced three people suffering from injury in Deri Maccha Village from the Badalpur Greater Noida region on Friday night.
“The three are undergoing hospital treatment,” said a local police officer.