more-inFour persons had a miraculous escape after the car they were travelling in fell into a 20-feet deep ditch when a portion of a service road on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway caved in on Wednesday due to heavy rains. A probe has been ordered by Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority, the body in-charge of the construction of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. When we noticed the ditch, we pressed the breaks and the car came to a stop and then turned over," he said. After construction work of 23 months, the Lucknow-Agra Expressway opened in November 2016 under the Akhilesh Yadav government. The expressway consists of a 3-km stretch designed to facilitate emergency take-offs and landings of fighter planes.

Source: The Hindu August 01, 2018 13:07 UTC