Nearly half a dozen vehicles collided with each other due to dense fog and reduced visibility in Greater Noida on Tuesday. The accident happened along the Dadri Bypass.
Some cars got stuck in a truck, as an impact of the incident.
The accident caused a traffic jam along the highway.
Police said those injured were shifted to a hospital. There were no fatalities in the incident, they said.
In Delhi, the minimum temperature was recorded at 4.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, the India Meteorological Department said. Dense fog in the national capital also affected train and flight movement.
“Delhi Palam (VIDP) and Safdarjung Airports are reporting 500 m visibilities at 0530 hrs IST of today, the 16th January,” The weather department tweeted.
As per the MeT department, fog is considered to be ‘shallow’ when the visibility stands up to 500 metres. ‘Moderate’ fog occurs when the visibility remains up to 200 metres.
As the visibility is up to 50 metres, the fog is categorised as ‘dense’. It is categorised as ‘very dense’ when the visibility reaches below 50 metres.
Earlier on Monday, visibility was recorded as ‘zero for the first time this winter season in Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan, Patiala, Ambala, Chandigarh, Palam, Safdarjung (New Delhi), Bareilly, Lucknow, Bahraich, Varanasi, Prayagraj, and Tezpur, as per the weather department.
Inputs by Arun Tyagi