Kanpur, Aug. 10 -- Forty-three passengers were injured after two private buses met with separate accidents on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Unnao early on Sunday. Police said 32 of them with serious injuries were referred to higher medical facilities. The two accidents took place within about 15 minutes of each other in Bangarmau and Behta Mujawar police station areas. The incidents prompted a swift response from ambulances, police and emergency teams, who rushed to the accident sites and the Bangarmau Community Health Centre . The first accident occurred at around 4:45 am near Devkhari village in the Bangarmau area. A private bus travelling from Delhi to Gonda with around 65 passengers crashed into the rear of a truck after its driver, Ashiq Khan, reportedly fell asleep while driving. Khan and seven passengers were injured in the collision. At about 5 am, another private bus carrying nearly 60 passengers from Delhi to Lucknow overturned near Shadipur village in Behta Mujawar area. Police said the driver, Ankit, had dozed off. The bus broke through the aluminium crash barrier and plunged nearly 15 feet into a ditch. The driver and the conductor, Adarsh, were among the 35 people injured. "The two accidents occurred within a short interval. Around 40 people were injured and those with serious injuries were referred to the district hospital," said Akhilesh Chandra Pandey, station house officer (SHO), Bangarmau. The Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority response team, along with the police, launched rescue operations. All the injured were taken to Bangarmau CHC. The injured were from Ayodhya, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Agra, Barabanki, Firozabad, Delhi and Nepal....