Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Baby Rani Maurya narrowly avoided injury when a truck lost control and collided with her car on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Friday night, officials said.

The state minister for women’s welfare and child development was returning to Lucknow after attending events in Hathras when the incident occurred near the 56th kilometre mark in Firozabad, according to Sirsaganj SDM Anivesh Kumar.

Taking to X, Baby Rani Maurya reassured her followers: “I am safe by the infinite grace of Parampita Parameshwar and all of you, my dear well-wishers.”

Traffic on the expressway was temporarily limited to a single carriageway as authorities managed the situation.

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