Five-vehicle pile-up due to fog kills one in U.P.'s Amethi; three injured

One person was killed, and three others injured after five vehicles collided amid dense fog near Akelwa Chauraha of Amethi district on Sunday (January 18, 2026), police said.

A milk pickup vehicle and a state roadways bus collided on the Raebareli-Sultanpur highway early this morning due to the poor visibility caused by heavy fog, they said. The pickup driver, Rohit (25), a resident of Ataura Bujurg village in Raebareli district, died on the spot.

Aakash, a resident of Raebareli, who was travelling in the pickup vehicle, sustained serious injuries. Two bus passengers — Gudda, a resident of Koliya, Munshiganj in Raebareli, and Jagannath, a resident of Bisuri village in Amethi — were also injured.

All the injured have been admitted to the district hospital in Raebareli for treatment.

Fursatganj station in-charge Nand Hausla Yadav said that after the initial head-on collision between the pickup and the roadways bus, two trucks and a car coming from behind also rammed into the vehicles, resulting in a five-vehicle pile-up.

He added that the body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.