A road accident on a highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra turned into a chicken loot after the truck carrying birds met with an accident. The accident occurred due to low visibility on the road as a result of a layer of fog over the highway.
In a video shared by news agency PTI, several men could be seen around the vehicle carrying the birds and collecting the chickens from the vehicle and walking away with them.
Reduced visibility due to fog amid dipping temperatures in the northern part of the country including Uttar Pradesh and Delhi has resulted in disruption of traffic and delays of flight and train schedules.
On Wednesday morning, several commuters were injured in a pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida due to low visibility, said police officials, according to news agency PTI. The incident took place around 8 am on the Agra to Noida lane of the expressway in Dayanatpur area under the Jewar police station limits.
"No person suffered fatal injury in the incident while the number of those injured was yet to be ascertained," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Ashok Kumar said.
Most of the damaged vehicles have been removed from the highway and normal traffic movement has resumed on the affected stretch, he added.
The region is prone to road accidents and pile-ups during winters after visibility reduces due to fog.
Earlier this month, the upper speed limit on the Yamuna Expressway was capped at 80 kilometres per hour as a preventive measure against accidents due to fog, stated the PTI report, adding that the speed limit was imposed on December 15 and will be in force till February 15.