India, April 14 -- Eleven people, including three women, were killed when a speeding taxi carrying 11 passengers collided head-on with a ready-mix concrete (RMC) truck on the Panjar bridge over the Ulhas River near Raite village in Kalyan tehsil on Monday morning.

The impact of the collision was so severe that ten of the 11 passengers inside the van died on the spot along with the driver. The deceased include three young siblings - two college-going sisters and their 15-year-old brother. The passenger who survived the crash, a woman, was seriously injured.

Police said the black-and-yellow Eeco van was carrying 11 passengers against its sanctioned capacity of five, when it rammed into the cement mixer between Kalyan and Murbad on the Kal...