Four members of a family were killed and five others injured when their
car rammed into a truck on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan's Sawai
Madhopur district on Sunday,4 Aug police
said.
The deceased had gone to Rishikesh in Uttarakhand
for a religious programme where a woman of the family died. After cremation,
the family members were returning to Vikramgarh-Alot in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam
district when the accident occurred.
"Prima facie, the car driver dozed off due to
which the car rammed into a truck moving ahead near Bhagwatgarh-Trilokpura
Banas river falling under Surwal police station," Deputy Superintendent of Police Hemendra Kumar
said.The bodies of the deceased and the injured were taken to a hospital of
Sawai Madhopur by an ambulance.
The deceased were identified as Rajan (22), his sister Monica (24),
Rekha (42) and her mother Dhapu Prajapat (60).