Times News Network Varanasi: Four women were killed while 19 people suffered injuries when Van pick-up carrying workers from Bareilly to Aurangabad at Bihar was reversed near Dhaphi Toll Plaza under the Lanka Police Station on Wednesday.
ACP Bhelupur Pravin Kumar Singh said that the van brought 25 men, women and children from nine families to their homes from Bareilly.
The accident occurred when the driver tried to follow a truck.
Four women were killed while 19 injured, he said added that the condition of a woman who was seriously injured while the other was stable.
The body was sent for postmortem and damaged vans were removed with the help of cranes to clear the highway for vehicle movements.
According to workers, they all came from the Aurangabad district in Bihar and lived in Bareilly with their families to get livelihoods.
They have ridden a van to reach their original places on the occasion of Diwali and Chhath to celebrate festivals with their relatives.
The van passed the Dapsi area at the National Highway-2 driver lost control of the steering wheel while trying to follow a truck after that the van hit the barrier and reversed.
When he heard the injured cry of several people who passed and the local natives rushed to the site of the incident to save them.
Meanwhile, Lankan police also reached the place.
Apart from the ambulance, another vehicle including a pedicab was automatically used to bring people who were injured to the earliest trauma center.
However, before the injured can reach the Leelavati Hospital (20), Rupa (17), Anju (22) and Kaushalya (22) died on the road, the police said added that injured people were identified as Sudama, Kiran Devi, Mamta, Mamta, Puja, Dulyi Devi, Rahul, Satyam, Saloni, Anita, Savitri, Deepa, Ravi, Vinod Prasad, Kallu Prasad, Santosh, Neelu and Chhoti of Dawood Nagar in the Aurangabad district.
Because of the accident, the traffic at NH-2 remained disturbed for several minutes.
After sending people who were injured to the hospital, the police were titled Crane to remove the crane to normalize the traffic scene.