UP: Lucknow-Gorakhpur highway bus accident killed driver, seven injured

Lucknow | Wednesday | 21st November, 2018

Summary:

A bus driver was killed and seven other passengers were injured when two buses collided on the Lucknow-Gorakhpur highway in the early hours of Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Earlier this year, a bus accident happened in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district, killing 17 people, 16 on the spot and 25 others were injured. Police rushed the injured people to a nearby hospital and sent the body of a driver of one of the buses for postmortem. The bus, according to reports, was travelling from Jaipur and heading to Farrukhabad in UP, with 60 passengers on board. “The incident took place at around 2 am in the Khorbar area due to dense fog..