On a Tuesday morning near eleven, a family returning from a pilgrimage to Khatushyamji met a sudden and final turn on the Jaipur-Delhi highway, where a car veered from its lane into a parked container truck at Bilpur, close to the Chandwaji flyover. Three of its members, a mother, her son and her daughter-in-law from Dibulgaj in Varanasi, lost their lives, while seven others, several of them children, were carried to NIMS Hospital with serious injuries. Police point toward speed and possible driver fatigue, though those are still early readings, and the wreckage now waits for a fuller account.
Speeding Car Hits Parked Container on NH-48 in Jaipur, Killing Three and Injuring Nine
Three family members died at the scene or on arrival at NIMS Hospital, and seven others, including children, were seriously injured.
The front of the car was nearly split in two.
Mark
Three people from one family died, and seven more were hurt. Who were they?
Mimi
A mother, Basanti, her son Vivek Kumar, and his wife Pooja Singh died. All lived in Dibulgaj, Varanasi. They were coming back from a pilgrimage to Khatushyamji.
Mark
And the injured?
Mimi
Seven people, including a 2-year-old, Sibu, and an 18-month-old, Kuku. Two of the injured, Anshu and Deepraj, are from Phoola in Raebareli rather than Varanasi.
Luke
Before we go on, the count needs care. The headline says nine injured, but the body names seven, then lists two more from Raebareli. The article is inconsistent on the total.
Mimi
True. The names listed are five from Dibulgaj and two from Raebareli, which makes seven. The report's own numbers don't fully agree.
Mark
What caused the crash?
Mimi
Police preliminarily suspect overspeeding and the driver possibly falling asleep. Eyewitnesses said the car was fast and lost control.
Luke
Note the word "possibly." That's a preliminary theory, not a finding. Nothing here says who was driving or whether that person survived.
Mark
Why include the minister's figure?
Mimi
It frames the crash as part of a national pattern: over 27,000 highway deaths in six months of 2025.
Luke
That's context, not evidence about this crash. It doesn't tell us anything about why this car left its lane.
Le Pouls
- A car full of pilgrims, returning from Khatushyamji, slammed into a parked container truck on NH-48 near Chandwaji before eleven on Tuesday morning.
- Three family members were killed and seven were hauled from the twisted metal, among them toddlers aged two and eighteen months.
- Police suspect overspeeding and a driver who may have dozed off, but those findings remain preliminary and unconfirmed.
- Both vehicles are seized for investigation, and traffic in both directions stayed snarled for nearly thirty minutes before flowing again.
- The injured remain under care at NIMS Hospital, and the investigation will decide whether fatigue joins speed as the cause.
On a Tuesday morning near eleven, a family returning from a pilgrimage to Khatushyamji met a sudden and final turn on the Jaipur-Delhi highway, where a car veered from its lane into a parked container truck at Bilpur, close to the Chandwaji flyover. Three of its members, a mother, her son and her daughter-in-law from Dibulgaj in Varanasi, lost their lives, while seven others, several of them children, were carried to NIMS Hospital with serious injuries. Police point toward speed and possible driver fatigue, though those are still early readings, and the wreckage now waits for a fuller account. It is one more chapter in a country where the road home can become the last journey.
Around eleven on Tuesday morning, a car carrying a family home from a pilgrimage drifted from its lane on the Jaipur-Delhi highway and struck a container truck parked at the roadside. The front of the car folded inward so badly that its engine was thrown free. The crash happened on National Highway-48 at Bilpur, a short distance before the Chandwaji flyover, and eyewitnesses said the car had been moving fast before it lost control.
Several passengers were trapped and had to be pulled out by residents and police. Three occupants died: Pooja Singh, Basanti, and Vivek Kumar. They were a mother, her son and her daughter-in-law, all from Dibulgaj in Varanasi. Seven others reached NIMS Hospital with serious injuries, including women and young children, most of them from the same village and two from Phoola in Raebareli.
Police say the group was returning from Khatushyamji. Their early assessment points to overspeeding and a possible lapse of attention by the driver, though these remain unconfirmed. The wrecked car and the truck have been taken in for investigation, and the highway stayed jammed in both directions for nearly half an hour.
The tragedy arrives against a grim national count. Last July, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari told Parliament that more than 27,000 people had died on the country's highways in just the first half of 2025. For this family, the question now is what the investigation will reveal, and whether the injured children at NIMS will recover.
Around eleven on Tuesday morning, a car carrying a family home from a pilgrimage left the Jaipur-Delhi highway's travel lane and slammed into a container truck parked at the roadside. The impact crushed the front of the car. Its engine was thrown clear, and the front section was nearly split in two.
The crash happened on National Highway-48 at Bilpur, about a kilometre before the Chandwaji flyover, in the area covered by Chandwaji police station. Chandwaji SHO Hiralal Saini gave that location. The car was heading from Jaipur toward Delhi with men, women and children aboard. Eyewitnesses told reporters it was moving at high speed when it suddenly went out of control.
Several passengers were trapped in the wreckage and had to be pulled out by local residents and police. Three of the occupants died, and the source gives two accounts of how: one says they were killed on the spot, another that doctors at NIMS Hospital declared them dead on arrival. The dead were Pooja Singh, wife of Vivek Kumar; Basanti, wife of Harishankar; and Vivek Kumar, Harishankar's son. By the relationships given, they were a mother, her son and her daughter-in-law. All three lived in Dibulgaj, Varanasi.
Seven others were taken to NIMS Hospital with serious injuries, among them women and children. Five of them are also from Dibulgaj: Vikas (34), another of Harishankar's sons; Aditi (34), Vikas's wife; Nikki (28), wife of Avadh Bihari; Sibu, who is 2 and is Vivek Kumar's son; and Kuku, 18 months, Vikas's daughter. Two more injured passengers, Anshu (19) and Deepraj (23), children of Prem Kumar, live in Phoola, Raebareli. Police said the group was returning from a pilgrimage to Khatushyamji.
A preliminary police assessment points to overspeeding and the possibility that the driver fell asleep at the wheel. Both are early findings, not conclusions. The damaged car and the container truck have been seized for further investigation.
The wreck also snarled the highway. Vehicles were stranded in both directions for nearly 30 minutes before traffic was gradually restored.
The report places the crash against a wider backdrop. In July 2025, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari told the Rajya Sabha that more than 27,000 people died in highway accidents in the first six months of 2025 alone. What remains to be seen is whether the investigation of the seized vehicles confirms the driver fatigue theory, and how the injured, including the two youngest children, recover at NIMS.
Citations marquantes
The accident took place at Bilpur, about one kilometre before the Chandwaji flyover.— Hiralal Saini, Chandwaji SHO
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