17 injured in accident onKanpur-Lucknow e-way

Kanpur:Nearly 17 passengers including driver of a Lucknow-bound SRTC bus were injured when it rammed into a truck near Nawabganj Toll Plaza in Unnao on Kanpur-Lucknow highway on Friday morning.
Police said the SRTC bus was carrying around 20 passengers from Kanpur to Lucknow.
The injured have been rushed to a nearby community health centre, from where two critically injured passengers identified as Dheeraj of Pratapgarh and Shahbaz, a resident of Lucknow, besides bus driver Gopi Gupta of Dahilamau village, Pratapgarh were referred to the district hospital.
According to additional superintendent of police (ASP) Vinod Kumar Pandey, the passengers who escaped unhurt or had sustained minor wounds were sent to their destination in another vehicle. He further said that the accident took place when the driver apparently dozed off and lost control of the bus. tnn