One person was killed, and five others were injured when a jeep belonging to a court crashed at Jurikhet in ward 6 of Bhimphedi Rural Municipality along the Hetauda-Bhimphedi-Kulekhani road on Tuesday morning.

Six people, including Gokarna Dangi, chief judge of the Janakpur High Court’s Birgunj bench, were travelling in the Scorpio jeep when it struck a road divider in Jurikhet and plunged about 50 metres down the slope.

The jeep was heading from Kathmandu to Hetauda. The injured were airlifted to the Nepali Army Hospital in Chhauni, Kathmandu, in a military helicopter, according to the District Police Office, Makawanpur.

Laxmi Badu, 49, died while receiving treatment. Dangi, Rita Badu and Ritendra Badu are undergoing treatment in Kathmandu. Doctors said Rita’s condition was serious.

Registrar of the Janakpur High Court’s Birgunj bench, Taradatta Badu, 51, and the jeep driver, Chunilal Chaudhary, 32, are being treated at Hetauda Hospital.

Laxmi was Taradatta’s wife, while Ritendra is their son and Rita is his sister.

The accident occurred about 3 km before Bhimphedi Bazar.

The same stretch has witnessed several fatal crashes in recent years. On January 1, 2026, a jeep travelling from Kathmandu to Hetauda plunged about 100 metres into a ravine at the site, killing six people.

Three other light vehicles have also crashed at the location. Four years ago, a vehicle carrying Thaneswar Devkota, then director general of the Foreign Employment Board, crashed at the same site, killing Devkota and another person. A passenger bus also plunged off the road there, killing five people.

Police said 15 people have been killed on the dangerous stretch over the past four years.