Greater Noida: A 57-year-old woman and her son were killed when a tractor being driven from the wrong side met with an accident on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) near Dankaur on Tuesday afternoon.
The police told two of them- Sona Devi (57) and Rinku (35) from Nuh in Haryana — . were returning from Meerut And were going towards Faridabad when the collision happened.
“The accident happened around 2.30 pm near Atta Gujran village area of Dankaur. The woman and her son were taken to a nearby hospital, but succumbed to their injuries during treatment. Both had gone to Meerut to get medicine for the goddess. Radha Ramani Singh, SHO of Dankaur police station.
Shamsher Singh and Manjot Singh, who were on the tractor, were also injured and have been admitted to a local hospital. “We are yet to record his statement,” the SHO said. He said that he would get more information after interrogating both.
The EPE or Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal Expressway is a 135 km long, 6-lane expressway that passes through Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to bypass Delhi. The speed limit on the EPE for cars is 120 kmph.
Police said that they are yet to receive a complaint about the accident.
Official figures show that around 2,000 people have lost their lives in 4,600 road accidents in Gautam Budh Nagar in the last five years. Last year there were around 800 accidents in which 368 people were killed and 550 others were injured. In 2020, despite low traffic due to months of COVID-induced lockdown, the district witnessed 745 accidents, killing 380 people and injuring 528. A year before that, about 500 people had lost their lives in 1,162 accidents and in 2018, 452 people died in 1,007 accidents in GB Nagar.
The police told two of them- Sona Devi (57) and Rinku (35) from Nuh in Haryana — . were returning from Meerut And were going towards Faridabad when the collision happened.
“The accident happened around 2.30 pm near Atta Gujran village area of Dankaur. The woman and her son were taken to a nearby hospital, but succumbed to their injuries during treatment. Both had gone to Meerut to get medicine for the goddess. Radha Ramani Singh, SHO of Dankaur police station.
Shamsher Singh and Manjot Singh, who were on the tractor, were also injured and have been admitted to a local hospital. “We are yet to record his statement,” the SHO said. He said that he would get more information after interrogating both.
The EPE or Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal Expressway is a 135 km long, 6-lane expressway that passes through Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to bypass Delhi. The speed limit on the EPE for cars is 120 kmph.
Police said that they are yet to receive a complaint about the accident.
Official figures show that around 2,000 people have lost their lives in 4,600 road accidents in Gautam Budh Nagar in the last five years. Last year there were around 800 accidents in which 368 people were killed and 550 others were injured. In 2020, despite low traffic due to months of COVID-induced lockdown, the district witnessed 745 accidents, killing 380 people and injuring 528. A year before that, about 500 people had lost their lives in 1,162 accidents and in 2018, 452 people died in 1,007 accidents in GB Nagar.