India, July 22 -- An unidentified e-rickshaw driver died and several others sustained minor injuries after a Jeep Meridian Overland (SUV) allegedly rammed into six parked vehicles on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (NH-9) late Sunday night, police said on Monday. The parked vehicles - two scooters, two motorcycles and two cars - had stopped on the roadside to assist victims of a prior accident involving a Maruti Suzuki Ciaz and an e-rickshaw.

The series of collisions, which left a total of eight vehicles badly damaged, began around 11.50pm near the Sector 63 NIB police outpost when a Ciaz car hit an e-rickshaw allegedly driving on the wrong side of the expressway, officials added.

Ajay Kumar Mishra, a retired deputy commissioner and practis...