4 Mumbai residents killed as car rams into stationary dumper in Gujarats Surat

Four residents of Mumbai were killed after their car rammed into a stationary dumper parked on the side of the Bharatmala Expressway in Gujarat's Surat district on Friday morning, police said.

The accident occurred around 8 am near Dhatva village in Kamrej taluka when the car was travelling from Mumbai towards Delhi on the expressway, Kamrej police station inspector R B Gojiya said.

The four occupants, all residents of Mumbai, were travelling to Sankheshwar Jain pilgrimage site in Patan district of Gujarat when the accident took place, he said.

The Maharashtra-registered car, which was suspected to be speeding, rammed into a dumper parked in the fifth lane of the expressway, the police official said.

The collision was so severe that all four of them died on the spot, he said.