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Three Killed as Mini-Bus Slams Into Parked SUV and Bike on DelhiMeerut Expressway

Investigators are reviewing CCTV to determine whether speed or driver fatigue led to the crash.

Overview

  • The collision, which happened around 6 am Friday near the IPEM College exit in Vijay Nagar, Ghaziabad, left two men from a parked Mahindra Thar and a motorbike rider dead.
  • Police identified the victims as Naveen Kumar Verma, 35, Deepak Sadana, 30, and Yogesh Kumar, 25, a bike-hailing rider based in Delhi.
  • Officers detained the traveler bus driver at the scene and later arrested him after an FIR was filed under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 281, 106, and 324(4).
  • Police named the driver as Virender Kumar, 32, and said the bus was traveling from Tilak Nagar in Delhi to Haridwar with 26 women onboard, none reporting major injuries.
  • Investigators are analyzing CCTV and scene evidence to verify early accounts that the passenger-laden bus was speeding and that the driver may have dozed off.