13 people died in a horrific collision between 8 buses and 3 vehicles due to dense fog on Yamuna Expressway near Mathura. Many were burnt alive in the fire. While an elderly man made his last call to his daughter before his death, a mother herself could not save her children.
New Delhi. In the early hours of Tuesday 16th December, a terrible accident occurred due to dense fog near Mathura on Yamuna Expressway, in which 13 people lost their lives. According to reports, the biggest reason for the accident is low visibility. At the time of the accident, visibility was not even one meter due to dense fog at the 127th milestone on the Yamuna Expressway from Agra to Noida. Let us tell you that in this accident, 8 buses and three small vehicles collided with each other.
Last call made to daughter before fire
According to the report, among those killed was 75-year-old Jai Prakash Verma, a resident of Rawatpur, Kanpur, who had last called his daughter Manisha shortly after the accident. When Verma, a painter by profession, was going to Delhi in a Shatabdi AC sleeper bus on Monday night, at around 4.25 am on Tuesday, he called his daughter Manisha and told her that the bus had met with an accident. Verma was badly trapped inside. He pleaded with his daughter to save her, but then the call suddenly got disconnected, leaving the family terrified.
Only remains of many passengers burnt alive found
Jaiprakash Verma’s daughter Manisha reached Mathura after coming to know about a major accident on the expressway from social media. He checked the list of injured in the district hospital and also contacted the District Magistrate, but his father’s name was nowhere to be found. Police later told the family that several passengers were burnt alive in the fire that broke out after the collision, whose remains were found. The report states that these remains have been kept in the mortuary for DNA.
Mother saved her children, but did not save herself
Another sad story came to light from this accident. A woman traveling in a sleeper coach pushed her two children out of the window, but herself could not escape. A relative of the woman spent the entire day searching for her sister-in-law Parvati in several hospitals in and around Mathura. Outside a hospital in Mathura, where the postmortem was being conducted, he told reporters that he had spoken to Parvati on phone after the accident. During the call she told that she had managed to take her children out through the broken window of the bus.