'Please Save Me': Father’s Final Call To Daughter Before Fatal Yamuna Expressway Bus Crash

Last Updated:December 16, 2025, 23:36 IST

The accident occurred around 4.25 am at the 127th kilometre mark on the Agra-Noida carriageway and involved eight buses and three smaller vehicles.

Multi-vehicle pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway | Image: X

A multi-vehicle pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway near Mathura in the early hours of Tuesday claimed at least 13 lives, leaving behind harrowing personal tragedies as families struggled to trace loved ones feared dead in the inferno that followed the crash.

The accident occurred around 4.25 am at the 127th kilometre mark on the Agra-Noida carriageway and involved eight buses and three smaller vehicles.

According to police, dense fog severely reduced visibility, with conditions so poor that drivers could reportedly see “less than a metre" ahead at the time of the collision.

Among the victims was 75-year-old Jai Prakash Verma, a resident of Rawatpur in Kanpur Nagar, whose final moments were marked by a desperate phone call to his daughter.

Verma, a painter by profession, was travelling to Delhi in an AC sleeper bus when the crash took place.

Trapped inside the vehicle, he managed to call his daughter Manisha to inform her that the bus had met with an accident and pleaded for help before the call suddenly cut off.

Alarmed, Manisha rushed to Mathura after learning about the crash through social media. She checked lists of injured passengers at the district hospital and approached local authorities, but her father’s name was nowhere to be found.

Police later informed the family that several passengers had been burned alive after the vehicles caught fire, and only charred remains had been recovered. These have been sent to the mortuary for DNA identification.

Another heart-wrenching story emerged from the same tragedy. A woman travelling in one of the buses reportedly managed to push her two children out through a window but could not escape herself.

Her brother-in-law, Gulzari, spent hours moving between hospitals in Mathura, desperately searching for her.

Speaking to reporters outside a post-mortem facility, Gulzari said he had spoken to his sister-in-law Parvati, 42, after the accident.

During the call, she told him she had managed to save her children by pushing them out of the bus through a broken window.

As the day wore on, her family feared the worst as unidentified, charred bodies continued to be brought in for examination.

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