Four persons were killed and three seriously injured when a car crashed into a tanker that was trying to switch carriageways on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway by sneaking through a broken part of the median near the Kamshet tunnel yesterday. The people in the car were members of a family returning to the city from a wedding in Rajasthan. The accident occurred at the 74-km point from Mumbai at 1 pm.

Family tragedy: A crane clears the mangled remains of the Maruti Eco carrying a family of seven that crashed into a water tanker on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway yesterday