Saharanpur, November 28: A speeding dumper lost control and overturned on a car killing seven members of the same family on Friday morning on the Delhi-Dehradun National Highway in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, said police.
Police removed the dumper with the help of a crane and pulled out the bodies trapped inside the car. After the accident, the dumper driver fled from the spot.
The Superintendent of Police (SP), City, Vyom Bindal, said that Mahendra Saini’s brother-in-law, a resident of Gangoh, died on Thursday night. On Friday morning, he and his family were traveling in the car of his relative, Raju Saini (27), to attend the funeral. According to an eyewitness, the village head, he was standing with the car on the side of the highway. The dumper, coming from Dehradun, loaded with gravel, was overloaded. As soon as the driver turned the dumper, it lost control and overturned on the car. The accident was so severe that the car was completely crushed, killing all occupants.
The SP city Bindal stated that the accident occurred on the Delhi-Dehradun National Highway near the Syed Majra underpass in the Gagalhedi police station area. Mahendra Saini, his wife Rani Devi, son Sandeep (24), daughter Julie (27), grandson (4), Mahendra’s son-in-law Shekhar Kumar (28), and Mahendra’s sister-in-law’s son Vipin (20) were killed in the accident. They were residents of Mohaddipur. Sandeep Saini was a pharmacist at the hospital run by former minister Dr Dharam Singh Saini’s brother.
The Police arrived at the scene after receiving information and removed the dumper with cranes. The car’s roof was then broken open and the bodies were recovered after about an hour. Sandeep was reportedly breathing when he was pulled out, but he also died after reaching the hospital.
The SP city added that the police sent the bodies for post-mortem and a case has been registered against the absconding driver and he is being searched.