Hyderabad, Oct. 12 -- Four members of a family were charred to death and another person was critically injured after their electric vehicle (EV) crashed into a road divider and caught fire on the Vijayawada West Bypass in Andhra Pradesh's NTR district on Monday evening, police said.

The accident occurred at 6pm when the occupants were returning from a family function in Namburu village in Guntur district, police said.

The deceased were identified as Kommareddy Ramdev (39), a resident of Nunna near Vijayawada; his mother, Kommareddy Aruna (65), his sister, Tiguru Vijaya (30), both residents of Namburu; and a child whose identity was not immediately available.

According to a senior Vijayawada police official, the car rammed into a roadsi...