Driver burnt alive in pileup on highway

Lucknow | Tuesday | 12th February, 2019

Summary:

Sushil got trapped in driver’s cabin and died while Firoz, another driver succumbed to injuries.The villagers reached the spot and doused the fire before informing the police. The police, with the help of locals, rescued the injured trapped in the vehicles and pulled out bodies of the two drivers. The bodies have been sent for autopsy,” said SP Jalaun Arvind Chaturvedi. “The statments of eyewitness are being recorded to establish the sequence of events. The police said that the impact was such that collision led to a massive fire following leakage in fuel tanks of the dumpers.A preliminary probe suggests that the driver of the dumper, ahead of the other two, was driving at a high speed..