Five people including a one-year-old baby were killed when a
multiple-purpose vehicle (MPV) were hit by an oil tanker Sunday
afternoon on the national highway 210 inside Yanchuan County,
northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The accident took place some three kilometers away from Qingjian
in Yanchuan around 5:30 PM. Witnesses said MPV, with six people
aboard, was seriously destroyed after being knocked away a dozen
meters from the lane on the highway.
All the fatalities were from the MPV which carried six persons,
the driver was injured in the accident, but the oil tanker driver
was not.
The accident also caused the traffic to be suspended temporarily
on Sunday.
Local traffic police are still working to establish cause of the
accident.
(Xinhua News Agency March 19, 2007)