Two Separate Truck–Motorcycle Crashes in UP and MP Kill Eight

Overview

• Bahraich police said a family of four died around 6 a.m. near Madan Kothi when their motorcycle collided with a gravel-laden truck in dense fog on the Bahraich–Lucknow highway.
• Karan, his wife Senu, their three-year-old son Vicky, and Senu’s brother Chandrakishore were identified as the Bahraich victims, and they had been traveling to a Kartik Purnima fair in Barabanki.
• Officers reported the truck in the Bahraich crash also lost control and landed in a roadside ditch, and the bodies were sent for postmortem examinations.
• In Dindori district, a speeding truck struck a motorcycle near Kohani Deori on Jabalpur Road, killing Nan Singh Parste, his wife Saroj, Champa Bai, and 12-year-old Priya Parste.
• Police in Madhya Pradesh impounded the truck and launched a search for the driver as investigators examine whether sudden braking, mechanical failure, or reckless driving contributed to the collision.