A 25-year-old man was killed and six others injured after a speeding car lost control and met with an accident on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on Wednesday, police said.
Expressway personnel launched rescue operations after the accident and shifted all the injured to a hospital in Kumar Ganj, where doctors declared Ansar dead, police said.
The accident occurred when a Mahindra Bolero car, carrying seven people residents of Ambedkar Nagar, lost control. Expressway personnel launched rescue operations after the accident and shifted all the injured to a hospital in Kumar Ganj, where doctors declared Ansar dead, police said. The group was travelling from Lucknow to their village, they. The deceased was identified as Ansar. The exact cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
Police suspect that the vehicle either collided with the divider or was hit by an unidentified vehicle, they said. Haliyapur police station sub-inspector Bhagwati Prasad said the cause of the accident was yet to be ascertained. The body has been sent for postmortem after completion of inquest proceedings, he said.
