On Saturday morning, a mini-bus carrying passengers from Ayodhya to Surat collided with a truck near milestone 27 in the Fatehabad area on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway. Thirteen passengers were injured in the incident. Police used a gas cutter to slice through the mini-bus window to extract the passengers, all of whom were subsequently admitted to the emergency ward of SN Medical College. Two of the passengers succumbed to their injuries, while 11 others remain under treatment in the emergency ward.
The vehicle was traveling from Ayodhya towards Agra.
At approximately 4:00 AM on Saturday, the mini-bus—carrying about 30 passengers—was heading from Ayodhya towards Agra. It was being driven by Dheeraj Patil, son of Suresh, a resident of Surat, Gujarat. Near kilometer marker 37.100 on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, the mini-bus struck a truck traveling ahead of it. The impact was so severe that it triggered panic and screams among the passengers. A total of 13 people, including the driver, sustained injuries. Upon receiving the alert, a UPEIDA (Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority) team arrived at the scene and transported the injured to SN Medical College, Agra, via ambulance.
Following the accident, the injured were sent for medical treatment.
The injured were transported to SN Medical College in UPEIDA ambulances.
At the hospital, doctors declared two of the critically injured passengers dead. The deceased have been identified as 55-year-old Pradeep Singh (son of Kishor) and Janakben (aged approximately 58, wife of Kirat Singh). Both were residents of Kim Bulao village, located within the jurisdiction of the Kim police station in the Surat district of Gujarat. The remaining 11 individuals injured in the accident are currently undergoing treatment. The damaged mini-bus, along with the belongings found inside, has been secured at a police outpost under the supervision of the driver, Dheeraj Patil.
