Police said that the accused was under the influence of alcohol while driving the car. (Representative)
Kanpur:
Three farmers were killed when a vehicle belonging to a Public Works Department official hit them in Kanpur’s Bilhaur town on Monday evening, police said.
He said the vehicle, which belongs to a junior engineer of PWD Ayodhya, was being driven by driver Ajit Kumar Pandey when the incident took place.
SHO (Bilhaur) Surendra Singh said that preliminary investigation revealed that Pandey was in an inebriated condition while driving the car.
Pandey was on his way to Ayodhya after dropping the junior engineer’s family at Sikandra in Kanpur Dehat when he lost control of the vehicle on the Lucknow-Etawah road and killed Surendra Singh (62), Ahibaran Singh (63) and Ghasite Yadav (65). bumped into ), the police said.
The three elderly farmers, residents of Bilhaur, were standing on the side of the road tending their orchards, he said, adding that all three died on the spot.
“We suspect that Pandey was driving rashly and recklessly when the fatal accident took place,” the SHO said.
The accused driver, who fled from the spot leaving behind the damaged SUV car after the accident, was arrested later, he said.
The SHO said that an FIR under relevant sections of IPC has also been registered at Bilhaur police station.
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