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7 killed, 25 injured as bus collides with car on Lucknow-Agra Expressway in UP

According to the SP, the driver of the car, who had been coming from Lucknow and going to Agra, must have fallen asleep and entered the wrong lane
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Rescue work under way after a collision between a double-decker bus and car on Agra-Lucknow Expressway, on early Sunday morning. PTI
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Etawah, August 4

Seven people were killed and 25 injured early on Sunday when the bus they were travelling in fell into a ditch after a collision on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in the Usrahar area here, police said.

Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar told reporters that a bus with a Nagaland number plate was on its way to Delhi from Rae Bareli, when at around 12.45 am it collided with a car coming in the wrong lane.

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The collision sent the bus careening into about a 20-foot roadside ditch.

Police have identified at least three dead.

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Om Prakash Tiwari, 50, a native of Lakhimpur, was one of the victims from the bus.

Monu, 25, his mother Chanda Devi, and Pradyumn, 24, who all were in the car, died on the spot. Three others are yet to be identified.

According to the SP, the driver of the car, who had been coming from Lucknow and going to Agra, must have fallen asleep and entered the wrong lane.

The injured, one of them critical, have been admitted to a hospital, police said.

The SP said there were about 60 people on the bus.

The family in the car was returning to Talgram in Kannauj after paying a visit to Mehndipur Balaji in Rajasthan.

Ranjana, a bus passenger, said the driver was using his mobile phone on the wheel and kept doing that even when asked not to.

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