The accident occurred round 8 am, almost 7 km from the zero level in Greater Noida’s Ecotech police station.
“Three persons of a family and their driver were killed. Prima facie, it does not look like an accident caused due to low visibility since fog was not that dense at the time,” mentioned Ajay Kumar, Circle Officer, Greater Noida 2nd, Gautam Budh Nagar Police.
The victims have been recognized as Manoj Kumar Sinha (53), his spouse Soni Sinha (50), his mother-in-law Usha (73), and Sultan Ahmad (40). Sinha and his relations had been on their approach again after attending a marriage in Bihar. “All of them died in the accident Monday morning. The couple, residents of Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram, have a 17-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter who study at a Delhi-based school. Ahmad, the driver of the car, used to live in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar,” a senior police officer mentioned.
Police officers mentioned that the silver Maruti Alto the 4 individuals had been travelling in hit a stationary truck. “It seems that their car was travelling at a high speed. They were on the road that leads to Pari Chowk in Greater Noida from Agra. It is also possible that the driver fell asleep. The truck had been parked on the side of the road after it had broken down. The bodies were stuck between the vehicles and it took us a while to bring them out,” the officer added.
The our bodies had been despatched for autopsy within the morning and had been handed over to the households by night.
This is the second accident on the Expressway this month. On December 1, two individuals had died close to Mathura in separate incidents when automobiles piled up attributable to low visibility.
