Overview
- Six people were killed and seven injured when a private double‑decker bus rammed a van on the Yamuna Expressway in Hathras, with police saying the driver was attempting to overtake.
- The Hathras bus driver, conductor and operator were detained and a case was registered under relevant BNS sections, as officials identified several victims from Rajasthan who were returning for Holi and sent the injured to SN Medical College in Agra.
- On the Agra–Lucknow Expressway in Unnao, a UPSRTC bus hit a stationary truck, killing three and injuring 28, and police said the driver may have dozed off at the wheel.
- Further crashes reported on March 3–4 included a pickup mounting a divider in Unnao that killed two including a three‑year‑old, a Betul car striking a parked crane that killed three and injured two, and a Chittoor collision with a stationary truck that killed five family members from Bengaluru.
- Police across jurisdictions registered FIRs, scanned CCTV, cleared traffic and continued searches in cases where drivers fled, with post‑mortems conducted and critically injured victims referred to larger hospitals.