Last Updated on 05/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Road accidents in Uttar Pradesh are not decreasing. In less than two months, 35 people have died in three accidents in the state, including seven people who died in a collision between a car and a double-decker bus in Etawah on Sunday.
According to police sources, a double-decker bus and a car collided on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Etawah’s Usrahar area around 1:45 am on Sunday night. Seven people, including three people in the car, died and 25 others were injured in the accident.
According to the news agency report, this is the third major incident in the state in the last two months in which more than five people have died. Earlier on July 10, a speeding bus hit a milk container from behind on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway, killing 18 passengers. More than 30 people were also injured in this accident.
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Earlier, on 12 June, i.e. early morning on Wednesday, a major road accident took place in Hardoi district. In this incident, a truck loaded with sand overturned on a family sleeping outside their house in Mallawan police station area. In this accident, eight members of the same family were killed while a girl was injured.
In 2023, 23652 people were killed in road accidents
In February this year, the Uttar Pradesh government had said that 23,652 people were killed in road accidents in the state in 2023. After this, the DM of all the districts was given the target of reducing them by 50 percent this year. According to the then Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra, in 2023, 23,652 people died in 44,534 cases of road accidents in Uttar Pradesh while 31,098 people were injured.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)