Lucknow: A video has emerged on social media on Sunday showing moments before the fatal crash on the Purvanchal Expressway on Friday. The crash killed four occupants of a BMW.
In the video, one of them can be heard saying in a Facebook live, “all four of us will die”, moments before their BMW crashed into a container truck on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur.
अभी हाल ही में #PurvanchalExpressway पर जो #BMW और ट्रक के बीच एक्सीडेंट हुआ, ये उससे पहले का #facebooklive है: pic.twitter.com/NqWrrdTkAn
— Faraaz Haseeb Khan (@khan_faraazh) October 16, 2022
The four people who died in a BMW car crash, appeared to be aiming at a speed of 300 kilometres per hour and were on Facebook Live as they reached 230 kmph.
The police and Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) officials soon rushed to the spot, the officials said.
Ravish Kumar, the District Magistrate and P Somen Burma, the Superintendent of Police also reached the spot and asked the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) to take appropriate action.
The DM reportedly informed that the deceased have been identified as Anand Prakash (35), resident of Dehri, Bihar, Akhilesh Singh (35), and Deepak Kumar (37). The fourth person killed is not identified yet, and efforts are on to ascertain his identity.
The expressway, connecting Lucknow to Ghazipur district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2021.