Three killed, 45 hurt as bus falls into ditch off Lucknow–Agra Expressway

Three passengers were killed and about 45 injured when a bus from Rajasthan to Bihar overturned into a ditch on 9 November, the Lucknow police said. It went off the road at the zero point of the Lucknow–Agra Expressway, in Lucknow’s Para area.

The bus, with about 50 to 55 passengers, was going from Beawar in Rajasthan to Chhapra in Bihar. It went out of control at about 7 a.m. and plunged off the expressway, the Hindustan Times reported. Several passengers were trapped inside.

The rescue

Police got word of the crash at about 7.15 a.m. With the help of local people, they pulled out the trapped passengers. The State Disaster Response Force, the National Disaster Response Force and the fire service were also called in.

“All injured passengers were rushed by ambulances to the Trauma Centre and Lok Bandhu Hospital for treatment,” Lucknow Police Commissioner Tarun Gauba said. Three of them died, he said, and about 45 were being treated.

The District Magistrate and the Police Commissioner went to the site. Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak visited the injured in hospital. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked officials to help the families of the dead.

What’s next

The police have not said what caused the driver to lose control of the bus.