Etawah (UP), February 23 Two people were killed and five others were injured when their car collided with a truck loaded with rice, while attempting to overtake another truck on the Agra National Highway here on Monday morning, police said.
SHO of Jaswant Nagar police station, Kamal Bhati, said that the car was carrying seven members of a family. Two of them, Chetram (55) and Sukhvasi (45), died on the spot. The remaining five – Chetram’s wife, Girija Devi, Chetram’s sons, Rajendra and Rajesh, Rajesh’s wife, Anjali, and Rajendra’s wife, Reshma Devi – were injured.
According to the SHO, the family was travelling from Hamirpur. The driver of their car was attempting to overtake a truck, lost control of the vehicle, and collided with a truck on the Etawah-Agra National Highway-19, which was loaded with rice.
Police received information from passersby and rushed to the scene. They rescued the people trapped in the vehicle, the SHO said.
The bodies of the deceased have been sent for post-mortem examination, police said, and added that the injured have been admitted to CHC Jaswant Nagar, where, after first aid, they were referred to Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai (in Etawah).
