Six Killed as Car Catches Fire After Highway Crash in Muzaffarnagar

Six people, including a child aged 10 to 12, were burnt alive after an out-of-control car rammed into a light pole near Jagaheri on the Panipat-Khatima National Highway in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, early on Monday, November 9, IANS reported via Daily Jagran. Police reached the spot and sent the bodies for post-mortem. An investigation is underway.

What police and reports say happened

The car was fitted with a CNG kit. It lost control, hit a divider, overturned on the other side of the road, and caught fire, Daily Jagran reported. Passersby called 112, the emergency number. Police and fire brigade teams reached the spot and extinguished the fire, and all six people in the car died.

Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Akshay Sanjay Mahadik said the accident occurred on the Panipat-Khatima National Highway at around 4:50 a.m., in an account carried by ANI. He said: "Today, on November 9, 2026, the Titawi police station received information that an Aura car plying on the Panipat-Khatima highway lost control on the overbridge, collided with a divider, and subsequently hit an electric pole, causing the car to catch fire."

The six in the car

Titavi Police Station in-charge Jaiveer Singh said all six occupants were residents of Jind district, Haryana, and that their families had not yet arrived, according to the later reports carried by Daily Jagran and Top Indian News. The New Indian Express also reported six people burnt alive after the car caught fire in Muzaffarnagar.

An early ANI dispatch put the accident in different terms, saying the occupants had been rushed to hospital. The later reports from IANS via Daily Jagran, Top Indian News and The New Indian Express all say the six died and that the bodies were sent for post-mortem. This report follows the later accounts on the toll: six killed. It makes no survivor claim, because none of the later reports supports one.

Reports also differ on where the car was heading. Top Indian News, citing the station in-charge, said the car was coming from Shamli towards Muzaffarnagar at high speed and lost control near Jagahedi bridge, in the Titavi police station area. The ANI account said the car was travelling from Haryana to Haridwar. The two accounts do not agree, so this article states no destination as fact. The settled facts are the road, the district, the sequence of the crash as police described it, and the toll.