Uttar Pradesh: 6 killed after car rams into truck on Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Kannauj

KANPUR: Six members of a family including a minor were killed when a car they were travelling in rammed into a truck ahead on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway near Taalgram area in Kannauj district on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed his deepest condolences regarding the tragic deaths of six people.
He has instructed officers of the district administration and police to rush to the spot and launch the best possible relief operation, the statement added.
The deceased were identified as Mohit Yadav (36), Pramod Yadav (35), Gyanendra Yadav (32), Sonu Yadav (31), Satyendra Yadav (18) and Suraj (15). All of them are from the Kakori area of Lucknow.
According to the superintendent of police Kannauj Prashant Verma, as per the preliminary findings, all the six members of the family from Kakori area of Lucknow left for Mehandipur Balaji temple in Rajasthan in a car late on Friday night. "As they crossed 165km milestone in the Taalgram area of Kannauj, the driver of the vehicle failed to notice a truck ahead, and rammed it," he said.
The car got mangled completely and six members of the family were extracted by the police and UPEIDA patrolling team and rushed to Tirwa medical college, where they were declared brought dead by the doctors. "The bodies of the deceased were shifted to the mortuary of the district hospital and the exact cause that led to tragic mishap is being investigated," Verma said.
The police, however, said that the family members of the deceased have been informed about the tragedy. Meanwhile, driver of the truck has managed to flee after abandoning vehicle at the spot.
The accident affected the movement of vehicles on the Agra -Lucknow Expressway for a while. The police cleared the vehicles with the help of a crane that met with the accident and cleared the way later.