An Army ambulance carrying the body of a subedar-major collided with a stationary truck on the Purvanchal Expressway here on Sunday, leaving three of his family and the driver dead, police said.
Subedar Major Satyawan’s son, brother and nephew and the ambulance driver died in the accident. The impact severely damaged the ambulance. Police took the bodies into custody and sent them for a post-mortem examination.
The body was being brought to his native village in Deoria district in Uttar Pradesh from Chandigarh when the accident took place around 8 am near 79.6 km-mark of the expressway in the Haliyapur area, close to the Ayodhya-Sultanpur border, they said. Gaurav Singh (28), son of the soldier, and the ambulance driver, Jaspal (30), died on the spot, while Rajan Chaudhary (35), the soldier’s brother, and nephew Ram Samujh Singh (40) succumbed to their injuries during treatment at a hospital in Pithla-Kumarganj in Ayodhya district, police said.
The ambulance went out of control and rammed into a truck parked on the side of the road, according to police. The families of the victims have been informed, officials said. Sultanpur Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal said District Magistrate Indrajeet Singh and he visited the spot after receiving information about the accident.
