Cuddalore, January 3: Five members of a family, including two children, were killed in a multiple collision involving the car in which they were traveling and a lorry, on the Chennai-Trichy national highway near Veppur in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district, police said on Tuesday.

The car, bound for Chennai, halted near Veppur in the early hours owing to the traffic congestion caused due to the construction of a flyover at Iyyanarpalayam when a speeding lorry crashed into the car from behind. Uttarakhand Road Accident: Cement-Laden Truck Rams Into Lachhiwala Toll Plaza in Doiwala, Girl Injured (Watch Video).

"Due to the impact, the car surged forward and hit a car in front of it and crashed between lorries. The car was completely crushed and all the five occupants died on the spot," a senior police official said. Disturbing Video: Speeding Car Hits, Flings School Girls in Odisha’s Ganjam, Terrifying Road Accident Caught on CCTV.

Police identified the man driving the ill-fated car as Vijayaraghavan of Nanganallur, Chennai. His mother, wife and two children, too, died on the spot.

Police, who rushed to the place, retrieved the bodies and sent them to the nearby government hospital for autopsy. The lorry driver, who fled after the accident, was later caught and detained by the police.

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