Times News Network
Kanpur: A 38-year-old professor of Lucknow University was killed and two others were critically injured thye car they were travelling in crashed into a road divider and turned turtle after its tyre got burst on Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Kannauj district on Monday.
Circle officer of Tirwa Deepak Dubey said the decaesed was identified as Prashant Chaudhary, a professor of Lucknow University, while those injured were identified as his two uncles Murari Lal Chaudahry (65) and Mahesh Narain (67).
The incident happened in the evening hours near Tirwa -Taalgram border on the expressway, police said.
The car was heading to Lucknow from Etawah, when one of the front tyres of the vehicle burst after which the car rammed into the divider, and overturned. “Family sources said that professor Prashant along with his two uncles had gone to participate in panchayat elections at their native place in Ekdil area of Etawah,” said the police.
The injured persons were admitted to the Tirwa Medical college, while the body of the deceased was sent for a postmortem, police added.