Overview
- Early on Saturday, two trucks collided near Patli Hajipur on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway and both vehicles caught fire, trapping one driver inside his cabin.
- Police identified the deceased as 22-year-old Deepu Kumar of Unnao and sent his body for postmortem while informing his family.
- Firefighters from the Manesar and Pataudi stations extinguished the blaze and recovered completely charred remains from the truck’s driver seat.
- Gurugram police have registered an FIR and say they are investigating the sequence of events and the ignition source that turned the crash into a fatal fire.
- Reports differ on whether the moving truck struck a parked vehicle and on the exact timing of the crash, and police say those details remain under verification as traffic on the carriageway has been restored.