Overview
- The late-Wednesday crash occurred near Atarasi under Rajabpur police limits on the Delhi–Lucknow highway, where a Swift Dzire struck a stationary DCM truck loaded with foam mattresses.
- All four victims were 2020-batch MBBS interns from Shri Venkateshwara University in Gajraula: Ayush Sharma of Delhi, Arnav/Arnab Chakraborty of West Bengal, Shresth/Shreyas Pancholi of Rajasthan, and Saptarishi/Saptarishi Das of Tripura.
- The impact crushed the car beneath the truck, requiring a tractor and cutting tools to retrieve the bodies, with no survivors reported at the scene.
- An FIR names the unidentified truck driver who fled, the bodies have been sent for post-mortem, and families have been notified as the probe proceeds.
- Police cited prima facie evidence of high speed and reported finding liquor bottles in the car, with the possibility that the interns were returning from a party noted in multiple accounts.