India, Aug. 1 -- AGRA Five members of a family died in a road accident on Friday afternoon when their car hit the road divider and overturned into the opposite lane, where it was hit by a trailer truck near Nagla Taal village within Bewar police station limits of Mainpuri on Grand Trunk Road.

A businessman of Kannauj, Deepak Chauhan, was driving the vehicle when the family was returning after attending the birthday celebration of his niece in Agra on Thursday night. It is feared that he might have fallen asleep while driving and lost control over the car, said police.

The deceased included Deepak, 36, his wife Pooja, 34, and their minor daughter Aashi, 9, Sujata, 30 (Deepak's sister), and her daughter Anny, 4. Aradhya, 11, elder daughte...