Ghaziabad: A one-year-old boy is among the five people who died after the car, they traveled with trucks pushed on the wrong side on the Delhi-Meerut toll road.
Families, police said, returned from Haridwar to Indirapuram after the Mundan Kid’s ceremony when the accident occurred near Masuri around 10pm on Monday.
The truck driver, carrying a water pipe to Rishikesh, has taken the wrong path to avoid the turn of U which is 500 m.
Five people who died were identified as Ashish Sinha (33), his wife Shilpi (30), his son Dev (1), Ashish’s Brother-in-Law Sonu (35) and Putri Sonu Kavya (11).
Sonu Nidhi’s wife (28) and Putri Ashish Shivi (4) fought against critical injury in the ICU from a private hospital.
Bodies have been sent for autopsy and the report is awaited.
According to family members, Ashish and his family came to Indirapuram from Lucknow on Sunday morning.
Both families have planned to go to Rishikesh for the Dev’s Mundan ceremony.
“Because Mundan was scheduled for the morning, the families went to Rishikesh on Sunday night itself.
They spent the day in Rishikesh and returned home when the accident took place on Monday night,” said Manoj Kumar, son of Sonu.
Car – A Maruti Alto – belongs to Sonu, and he drives it.
“It was around 11:30 a.m.
when we got a call from the police.
We rushed to the hospital at Kavi Nagar, but Sonu and the others died at that time.
We were told that Nidhi and Shivi were undergoing treatment in the ICU and very important,” Kumar said.
Shailendra Pratap Singh, The Sho of Masuri Police Station, said they got information about accidents around 10:10 a night and a team was sent to the place.
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Residents were pulled out of the car destroyed and rushed to a private hospital.
Fifth was declared dead on arrival while the other two rushed to the ICU.
“The truck driver has been identified as Bablu (30), a resident of Amroha.
He tried to escape but was arrested by the police team at Bhojpur.
He told his interrogator that he took the wrong path to reduce travel time.
There is a 500 meter U-turn.
He avoids, “Singh said.
Following complaints by the Sonu family, a pine has been registered in the truck driver below 304 (murder guilty of not number of murder), 279 (driving rash) and 338 (causing sad pain by acting to endanger the life or personal safety of others) from the IPC.
Truck on the wrong side of the car on DME, 5 dead
