5 of family killed after car rams into parked truck on Greater Noida Expressway

Five members of a family were killed when their Maruti Suzuki WagonR car crashed into a stationary truck on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway near the Noida Sector 146 Metro station at 6am on Sunday, police said. Police suspect that the WagonR’s driver may have dozed off behind the wheel and rammed into the truck, whose driver had parked it in on the road due to a tyre puncture. The truck driver fled on foot after the accident, police said.

A passersby told police about the accident on their emergency helpline number at 6am. (Representational image)

The victims have been identified as Aman Singh, 27, his father Devi Singh, 60, mother Rajkumari Singh, 50, and two aunts Vimlesh Singh, 40, and Kamlesh Singh, 40, all residents of Kashiram Colony in Ghodi Bachheda, Dadri. They were returning home from a hospital in Noida Sector 30 where the two-year-old son of one of their relatives was admitted for an illness, police said.