Dense Smog Leads To Massive Pile-Ups In UP Leaving 2 Bikers Dead, Dozens Injured At Different Places

New Delhi: Two bikers died and nearly three dozen people were injured in separate accidents due to smog in Noida and other parts of western Uttar Pradesh in the early hours of Tuesday.

A truck rammed into another on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway due to low visibility. A bus travelling from Panipat to Mathura could not spot the trucks and hit them from behind. About a dozen passengers on the bus were injured and rushed to hospital. Police reached the pile-up spot and started clearing the way, as per NDTV.

Meanwhile, in Firozabad near Agra, six vehicles piled up after a pick-up truck broke down and the cars behind it could not spot the stalled vehicle due to low visibility. Several people injured in the pile-up were rushed to Saifai Medical College. The incident took place near Nasirpur on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway. Several SUVs crashed one after the other after they failed to see the stalled pick-up truck, according to the report.

One of those caught in the pile-up was quoted as saying, “We couldn’t see anything and our car hit a car that had rammed the truck. Then three-four more cars crashed into ours.”

At Bulandshahr, a speeding truck hit a bike from behind, leading to the biker’s death. Mainpuri resident Mansharam died after the truck rammed his bike due to low visibility on National Highway-34. Police have taken the truck driver into custody, according to NDTV.

Another road tragedy occurred near Badaun when an unidentified vehicle hit the bike of Santosh Singh, a teacher who was on his way to the school in Mau. Ten other people have been injured in similar crashes in the area.

Notably, several parts of North India, including national capital Delhi, are in the middle of alarmingly high levels of pollution in the ‘severe+’ category and have led to dense smog.