Dense fog, wrong side driving claim four lives

Bareilly | Monday | 14th January, 2019

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Sultan was driving the SUV. Azim and Waqas were roadside vendors and Arshad was a tailor, while Sultan used to work at a health clinic in Rudrapur,” said SHO.“A Dial 100 patrolling team informed the Baheri police station about the accident, following which crane was called and the mangled vehicles were removed from the highway,” said SHO.“The bodies have been sent for postmortem examination and a case was registered under section 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Baheri police station,” said SHO. Bareilly: Four people were killed after a Swift car rammed into an SUV coming from the wrong direction on the Nainital highway in Baheri area on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.Station house officer of Baheri police station inspector Dalbeer Singh said, “Due to dense fog , the driver of the speeding Swift, which was on its way to Baheri from Kichchha in Uttarakhand, could not notice the SUV coming from the wrong (opposite) direction and rammed into it around 2am on Sunday, killing all the four on the spot.”“The deceased, aged 18 to 20 years, have been identified as Azim, Waqas and Arshad from Baheri — all occupants of the Swift, and Sultan, a resident of Rudrapur in Uttarakhand..