Six people were fatally burned when a vehicle traveling at a high speed tore into an electric pole and caught fire early Monday morning on the Panipat‑Muzaffarnagar highway in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, local police said as reported by Xinhua.
The speeding car hit the pole, then slammed into a road divider, igniting instantaneously, Xinhua added; the occupants had no time to escape the blaze.
According to Xinhua, the incident took place in the early hours of Monday and the vehicle was travelling well above the speed limit when the collision occurred.
A tweet from PTI corroborates the details, stating that the car crashed into a light pole and erupted into flames, killing all six occupants on the same stretch of highway.
