Auraiya/Aligarh (UP), Dec 19: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday instructed officials to implement an action plan with inter-departmental coordination for road safety to prevent accidents.
He also appealed to the people to follow traffic rules and stressed that it was essential to check accidents, especially due to the winter fog.
Adityanath’s directive comes after five people were killed and 33 others injured in separate accidents due to dense fog on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Auraiya district and the national highway in Aligarh.
In Auraiya, three people were killed and nine others injured when a Lucknow-bound bus rammed into a truck on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway, police said.
In Aligarh, two people were killed and 24 others injured in accidents on National Highway 91 due to heavy fog, they said.
More than a dozen vehicles, including a police patrol car, were damaged in the subsequent pile-up. (PTI)
