Seven people were killed and 25 injured early on Sunday when their bus fell into a ditch after a collision with a car and overturned on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in the Usrahar area here, police said.
Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar told reporters that a bus with a Nagaland number plate was on its way to Delhi from Rae Bareli, when at around 12.45 am it collided with a car coming from the wrong lane, PTI reported
According to the SP, The driver of the car, who had been coming from Lucknow and going to Agra, must have fallen asleep and entered the wrong lane.
The bus veered off the road and into a ditch after the collision.
Five persons who have died in the accident have been identified by police as Om Prakash Tiwari, 50, a native of Lakhimpur and Yasir Alvi, a resident of Amethi district, who were passengers in the bus.
Monu, 25, his mother Chanda Devi, 40, and Pradyumn, 24, were in the car and died on the spot.
Two others are yet to be identified.
The injured, one of them severely hurt, have been admitted to a hospital, police said. The SP said there were about 60 people on the bus.
The people in the car were believed to be members of a family and were returning to Talgram in Kannauj after a visit to Mehndipur Balaji in Rajasthan.
Ranjana, a bus passenger, said the driver was using his mobile phone and did not pay heed to the passengers' pleas to not do so.
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