A horrible accident on Delhi-Lucknow Highway has left two young women dead, when a truck hit their car and dragged it for about 50 meters. The incident has reverberated in the area sparking concerns over road safety and high profile reckless driving by lorries.
Early this morning, the speeding truck ploughed into car transporting two women which lead to this accident. The impact was so severe the vehicle was literally yanked for a considerable distance on the highway doing extensive damage and resulting death.
According to the eyewitnesses, it seems the truck was zipping along at high speeds and the driver might have slipped out through control. The crash then meant that a collision turned into being dragged by the truck for enough time the crash got worse. Fire and Rescue Services rushed immediately to the scene, but due to the severity of both the lady’s injuries both were dead at scene. The car and truck most definitely were a stark look at how recklessly driving can destroy.
In the last few years, the Delhi-Lucknow Highway has become one of those major arterial routes that saw one of the country’s highest number of accidents. The latest incident has set off a wave of calls for tougher enforcement of traffic rules and better road safety.
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A full-scale investigation by the police is currently underway to find whether there was any causal factor to the accident. Truck driver caught, being interrogated Authorities are looking at CCTV from neighbouring areas to piece together what happened in the minutes leading up to impact. Women who died are deeply mourned by the families of those women and the local community is in shock at all these needless deaths. What the incident thus has showcased is how at times highways can be fatal for motorists to travel through due to unwarranted threats posed by big vehicles on the roads.
The Delhi-Lucknow highway tragedy shows that much of road safety measures need to be recharged urgently. One last reminder by the authorities to enforce stricter regulations on speed limits, build better highways and conduct frequency vehicle driver checks. The incident once again emphasizes the importance of a push on road safety in India.
