LUCKNOW, Oct. 8 -- Four tennis ball-cricket players were killed and two others injured after their seven-seater car rammed into the rear of a truck on the Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur early Wednesday; police suspect the driver may have dozed off.

Sultanpur circle officer (CO), Baldirai, Ashutosh Kumar said the accident occurred around 5am in the Baldirai police station area when the players were returning to Deoria from Lucknow after participating in a tennis-cricket match in the Bakshi Ka Talab (BKT) area. Police said the car was apparently travelling at around 100 kmph when it crashed into the truck.

The impact left the car severely mangled. Passers-by and security personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Developmen...