A 48-year-old bus driver was killed and around 20 passengers were injured after a double decker sleeper bus caught fire following a collision with an overturned truck on the Agra Lucknow Expressway in Uttar
Pradesh’s Firozabad district early Friday morning.
The accident took place around 2.30 am near Kilometre 46 under the Matsena Police Station area, police said.
According to officials, the bus was travelling from Kanpur to Gurugram when it rammed into a sand laden dumper that had overturned after crashing into a divider on the expressway.
The impact of the collision is believed to have caused a short circuit, which quickly sparked a fire inside the bus.
As flames engulfed the vehicle, passengers smashed window panes and jumped out in panic to save their lives.
The driver, identified as Shambhu, a resident of Kanpur’s Bari area, got trapped inside the burning bus and died on the spot.
VIDEO | Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh: A private sleeper bus travelling from Kanpur to Gurugram collided with a tanker near pillar number 46 on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in the Matsena police station area of Firozabad. The impact was so severe that the bus suddenly caught fire. The… pic.twitter.com/bo2cAU6cbj
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Several Passengers Injured
Police said around 40 to 45 passengers were travelling in the bus at the time of the accident.
Superintendent of Police Ravi Shankar Prasad and City Magistrate Vinod Kumar Pandey reached the spot shortly after the incident.
“Twenty passengers were injured in the incident, of whom seven seriously injured persons were admitted to Firozabad hospital, while others were referred to Saifai,” the SP said.
Firefighters took nearly three hours to bring the blaze under control, officials said.
The driver’s body has been sent for post mortem examination.
