A collision between a dumper truck and a passenger auto-rickshaw at Sonia Vihar Pushta in East Delhi killed three people, including a newborn girl, and injured five others late Wednesday night, according to Delhi Police. The injured were taken to Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital for treatment.
Police said they received information about the crash late at night and reached the location with local residents. The dumper, bearing registration number DL-1LY-5990, and the auto-rickshaw, registered as DL-1RAB-5531, collided head-on at Sonia Vihar Pushta. The auto was travelling from the Manesar side towards Sabhapur village, according to the report.
The impact left several occupants of the auto seriously injured. Police and local residents moved the injured to the hospital before the fire department arrived at the scene. The three victims were declared dead at the hospital, the report said. They included two unidentified men and a newborn girl.
Five people were injured in the crash. The injured were identified in the report as Raja, 32, and Rakhi, 30, along with three others. A three-year-old girl who was travelling in the auto survived the collision, according to the police account cited by Jagran.
The crash occurred on the Sonia Vihar Pushta road, an urban edge corridor that carries local traffic between settlements and connecting areas in north-east Delhi. The available police account confirms the vehicles involved, the casualties and the hospital response, but does not establish the cause of the collision.
The incident also highlights the immediate public-safety consequences of crashes involving heavy vehicles and shared passenger transport on city roads. The supplied report does not provide details on road lighting, traffic controls, vehicle speed, driver conduct, road design or whether either vehicle had violated traffic rules. Those factors remain part of the police investigation.
Sonia Vihar police have registered a case and begun investigating the circumstances of the collision. The authorities are expected to establish how the two vehicles reached the point of impact and determine responsibility as the investigation proceeds.
