Auraiya (Uttar Pradesh): Four members of a family died when the car they were travelling in hit a dumper from behind parked on Yamuna Expressway near Harnagarpur village of Erwakatra police station area in Auraiya of the state.
Police personnel reached the spot and retrieved the bodies after cutting the car which was completely mangled. The injured were sent to the medical college in Saifai.
The car was coming from Agra when it hit the rear side of the dumper loaded with gravel, in which four people died on the spot.
The deceased were residents of Kalyanpur Indira Nagar in Kanpur but currently living in Noida. They were identified as Piyush Yadav, who was at the wheel, his mother Neeta Yadav, his wife Shivkumar, sister-in-law Sanju and his five-year-old nephew Aarav. They were heading to Noida when the car lost control and collided with the loaded dumper.
In a separate incident, a girl had a close shave with death as she fell and landed on the base of an elevated road pillar after the scooter she was riding met with an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Noida on Saturday.
The particular spot where the accident took place falls under the jurisdiction of the Noida Sector 20 police station. The girl fell off the road after an unidentified vehicle hit her. While the identity and the condition of the girl were not immediately clear, passersby jumped on the pillar where she was lying to rescue her. It was not immediately clear if the driver of the vehicle which hit the girl was caught or not.
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