India, Nov. 20 -- A couple in their 40s and their six-year-old daughter were killed, and four others were injured on Wednesday night after a speeding car collided head-on with a scooter in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, police said on Thursday.

Three occupants of the car and a pedestrian were injured in the accident, which occurred barely 100 metres from the Angauta police station in Bulandshahr.

Police officers said the impact of the collision was so severe that the scooter was shattered into pieces, and all three riders were flung nearly 10 feet away. The front portion of the car was completely crushed.

An eyewitness informed the police. "The critically injured car driver lifted the six-year-old girl in his arms and rushed toward the h...