Four of family die as their motorcycle collided with a car

Four persons, including two women and a child, all belonging to a family, were killed when their motorcycle collided head on with a car on Haridwar-Delhi highway, police said on Saturday.

The mishap occurred on Friday near Godavari hotel when Aftab along with his wife, son and another woman relative was returning from Roorkee to Manglaur, they said. The impact of the collision was so powerful that all the occupants of the two-wheeler landed several metres away from the vehicle.

They were rushed by the police to the civil hospital Roorkee where all the four were declared brought dead. The driver fled leaving the car on the spot immediately after the accident, Manglaur police station sources said. The car has been seized and a search is on to nab the driver, they said.