According to the police, initially the trucks going from Kasna successful Greater Noida towards Faridabad crashed connected the highway, pursuing which a autobus proceeding towards Mathura rammed into 1 of the trucks. (PTI)
Seventeen radical were injured successful a roadworthy mishap successful Greater Noida aft 3 vehicles, including 2 trucks and a bus, collided with each different owed to mediocre visibility caused by dense fog connected the Eastern Peripheral Highway aboriginal connected Tuesday, the constabulary said.
According to the police, initially the trucks going from Kasna successful Greater Noida towards Faridabad crashed connected the highway, pursuing which a autobus proceeding towards Mathura rammed into 1 of the trucks. All the injured were autobus passengers, they added.
“The mishap occurred astatine 5.15 am. There are nary deaths. Those injured were taken to the GIMS infirmary and are getting treated,” said Anuj Kumar, Station House Officer, Ecotech-1, Noida.
The constabulary person cleared the vehicles from the road and person begun the investigation.
Kumar said that prima facie it seems the mishap occurred owed to dense fog, arsenic the Air Quality Index successful Delhi and NCR states person reached alarming levels.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a ‘yellow’ alert for mean to dense fog crossed Delhi-NCR, further aggravating the visibility situation. As of Tuesday morning, visibility astatine Indira Gandhi International Airport stood astatine conscionable 600 meters. Adding to the discomfort, 100% humidity was recorded successful the city, intensifying the contamination impact.