Kanpur: A Samajwadi Party functionary was killed and two others were injured after their car hit a roadside iron railing and overturned near the food plaza at kilometre 220 on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Monday evening.
Doctors declared Lal Sahab Yadav (40), also a resident of Mudadiha, dead after examination. Surendra and Ravindra Chaurasiya (35), a resident of Salarpur Post Chirra Mohammadpur in the Raunai police station area, were given first aid and referred to Kanpur. The three Ayodhya residents were returning home after meeting MP Dharmendra Yadav in Saifai, Etawah. Surendra Yadav, a resident of Mudadiha in the Maharajganj police station area, was driving the car. UPEIDA security personnel righted the damaged vehicle, rescued the occupants and took them by ambulance to the community health centre.
Station in charge Vinay Tiwari said the speeding car went out of control and hit the railing. The victims’ families were informed, and Lal Sahab’s body was handed over to his family after a postmortem.