NE NEWS SERVICE
SURENDRANAGAR, NOV 18
Four members of a family were killed and one injured after their car rammed into a tree on the side of a state highway in Surendranagar district on Wednesday morning, police said.
One of the family members who was driving the vehicle lost control of the wheel, causing it to crash into a tree near Kothariya village on Lakhtar-Wadhwan state highway, an official from Lakhtar police station said.
A couple, their 17-year-old daughter and elderly mother were killed on the spot, while their 22-year-old son who sustained injuries was shifted to a hospital in Surendranagar, the official said.
The family from Lakhtar town had driven to Bhaguda village to offer prayers at a temple and were heading back home at the time of the accident, he said.
The impact of the crash was such that the rescue team had to use a gas cutter to extract the bodies, the official said.
The deceased have been identified as Lalitaben Lakhtariya (65), Navinbhai (45), Varshaben (43) and Januben (17), he added.
