India, Aug. 3 -- Four Indian-origin family members, who went missing during their road trip in New York, have been found dead in a tragic car accident, the Marshal County Sheriff's office said in a statement on Sunday.

Asha Divan (85), Kishore Divan (89), Shailesh Divan (86), and Gita Divan (84) were travelling from Buffalo in New York to Prabhupada's Palace of Gold in West Virginia, when they went missing since July 29.

The US authorities said that the family died in a car crash near a steep embankment along Big Wheeling Creek Road, which was barely five miles from their destination.

The four family members were on a road trip in a 2009 Toyota Camry travelling to Prabhupada's Palace of Gold, a spiritual retreat in Moundsville, West Vi...