Lucknow, In a tragic incident, a truck collided with a tanker in Kakori area in which five persons were killed and 20 injured. Acording to the police, "All the injured were rushed to a hospital where Mahaveer 30, Chandrapal 40, Kapoor 22 and an unidentified boy were declared brought dead while one Sukhram 18 died during the treatment".

The tanker was seized and its driver is absconding, police said.

Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. There is one death every four minutes due to a road accident in India.