Korba (Chhattisgarh), February 13 Two people were killed and five others were injured in a collision between two speeding cars on a highway in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday.
The accident occurred around midnight on the Katghora-Ambikapur Highway near Jharna Mod, under the Bango police station limits, an official said.
He said two men, Dhanpat Yadav (42) and Indrajeet Gond (43), were killed instantly after the cars collided head-on, while five occupants sustained injuries.
The occupants of both vehicles, which were badly damaged in the crash, were residents of the Sarma Korbi area in the district, the official said, adding that airbags deployed in time, which helped save the lives of some occupants.
Locals gathered at the scene and alerted the police and the 112 emergency service response vehicle. The injured were taken to a health center in Podi-Uproda, from where two were later transferred to the medical college hospital in Korba for advanced treatment, he said.
The official said preliminary investigation suggests that speeding may have been the main cause of the accident.