Agra, 24 Oct

(HS): On Friday night two separate mishaps rocked Agra. In first incident, a

speeding car struck seven people in Nagla Budhi, located on Central Hindi

Sansthan Road in the New Agra police station. A delivery boy riding a bike was

the first to be hit. Eyewitnesses said police were conducting checking near the

scene. To escape the police, the driver sped away. A short distance away, a

mother, son, and two friends were also hit.

Despite this,

the driver did not stop the car. The car went out of control and hit a divider

100 meters ahead. It overturned three times and fell on people sitting outside

a house. Two people were crushed under it. After the incident, there was

screaming and shouting. The people of the locality straightened the car and

pulled out the trapped people. With the help of the police, everyone was taken

to the hospital, where 5 were declared dead. 2 are in critical condition.

Eyewitnesses

said the driver was drunk and was speeding away, fearing arrest. The incident

occurred around 8 p.m. A car was speeding from the 80-foot section of Dayalbagh

Road toward Nagla Budhi. Eyewitness Premchand, a resident of Nagla Budhi, said

his father, Daulatram, had died on Thursday. Therefore, the family had set up a

tent outside their home. The family was sitting under the tent.

Jatin Resort

is located 200 meters from the house, near a liquor store. The car first struck

an employee of an online food delivery company right in front of the resort. He

was on a bike. Even after hitting him, the driver did not stop the car. It was

reported that the police were conducting a checkpoint nearby. The police

attempted to stop the car. To avoid this, the driver increased the speed.

The

uncontrolled car hit Babli (38), a resident of Nagla Budhi, her son Golu, and

two friends, Kamal (23) and Krish alias Krishna (20), who were painters and

passing by. The car then hit a divider 100 meters ahead. The impact was so

severe that it overturned three times. It then landed on people sitting outside

Premchand's house, crushing Premchand's nephews, Rahul and Virendra.

After the

accident, there was a lot of screaming and shouting. People from the surrounding

area arrived. They somehow lifted the car and pulled out the people trapped

under it. Devendra and Jatin were burnt due to the silencer of the car. On

receiving the information, the police also reached the spot shortly. The people

hit by the car were sent to SN Medical College Emergency, where Babli, Bhanu

Pratap, Kamal, Krishna and Bantesh (50) were declared dead. Two others are

injured and are undergoing treatment.

Chaos ensued,

car driver beaten: After the incident, chaos broke out in the entire locality.

A crowd of people gathered. Eyewitnesses said that the car driver was in an

inebriated state. The airbags opened due to the collision. This saved his life.

After the accident, the car got locked. People broke the glass and pulled him

out. After this, he was beaten. The police somehow saved him from the people.

After this, he was taken to the police station.

The police

attempted to remove the car, but the crowd became enraged and began creating a

ruckus, demanding compensation for the victim's family. Later, Additional

Deputy Commissioner of Police Aditya Singh and ACP Hariparvat Akshay Sanjay

Mahadik arrived. After an hour, the police pacified the crowd. The car involved

in the accident was then seized.

Meanwhile, in

a separate incident Baby Rani Maurya, Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister, had a narrow

escape on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Friday night when a truck driver lost

control and struck her automobile, according to an official. The state minister

for women's welfare and child development was on his way back to Lucknow from Hathras

when the event occurred around the 56th kilometer point in Firozabad, according

to Sirsaganj's SDM Anivesh Kumar. Around 8:40 p.m., a truck moving ahead of the

minister's vehicle experienced a sudden tire rupture, forcing it to slip

uncontrolled and collide with her automobile, according to the officer. The

minister's automobile was seriously damaged, but the driver was able to handle

it.

The minister,

however, was uninjured and resumed her journey to Lucknow in another car. Later,

in an X post, Maurya wrote, I am safe by the infinite grace of Parampita

Parameshwar and all of you, my dear well-wishers. At the time, traffic on

the highway was handled using a single lane.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi