AGRA, Feb. 9 -- Following the deaths of six people on Saturday who were standing near a private bus, and the earlier death of 19 people in a fog-related road pile-up on December 16 on the Yamuna Expressway, senior officials held a meeting late Saturday at the Mant Toll Plaza in Mathura to discuss measures to reduce accidents on the expressway. The meeting was attended by Agra division commissioner Nagendra Pratap, DIG Agra Range Shailesh Kumar Pandey, and officials of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA).

The deaths have raised serious concern, as both major accidents occurred on the Yamuna Expressway within the limits of Mathura district.

Nagendra Pratap, who recently took charge as commissioner of the Agra Di...