An ambulance carrying the body of Subedar Major Satyawan Singh crashed into a stationary truck on the expressway
Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal said police received information about the accident through Dial 112 and initiated legal proceedings.
The ambulance was travelling from Panchkula in Haryana to the family’s native village in the Rudrapur area of Deoria district when it rammed into a truck parked along the expressway, according to police. District magistrate Indrajeet Singh said CCTV footage from the area was being examined. Preliminary investigations suggest the vehicle was moving at high speed when the collision took place. The impact was devastating. The front portion of the ambulance was completely crushed, trapping the driver and one passenger inside the mangled cabin. Police personnel and rescue teams had to cut open the vehicle to retrieve the bodies.
The accident occurred near Haliyapur, close to the Ayodhya-Sultanpur border, at kilometre marker 79.6 on the expressway.
Family members said Subedar Major Satyawan Singh had been undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chandigarh and had undergone a kidney transplant. LUCKNOW: Army personnel Satyawan Singh had two cherished dreams: to see his son Gaurav become a doctor and his daughter Diksha an engineer. Satyawan, posted at the Army camp in Meerut, died during treatment in Chandigarh. His family was bringing his body to their native village, Gahila Dudhailla, in Deoria when their ambulance rammed into a stationary truck on the Purvanchal Expressway near Haliyapur in Sultanpur. The four deaths have plunged the family and village into grief, leaving behind shattered dreams and an unimaginable void.
He died in Panchkula a few days before the journey home. On Sunday, tragedy shattered the family, claiming both the father and son along with two other relatives.