India, Oct. 3 -- A tempo driver and cleaner were killed after their vehicle crashed into a parked dumper in Ulwe on Wednesday morning. Repair work was going on at the spot and the dumper was parked outside the barricaded repair area, which is a no-parking zone, the police said.

According to the police, the accident occurred around 4.45 am on Wednesday when the tempo driver Umesh Sadanand Utekar, 45, and the cleaner Suyog Rajendra Pawar, 25, were transporting goods from Chiplun to Bhiwandi. When they reached Ulwe Bridge on Uran-Belapur highway, their tempo rammed into a stalled dumper. "The impact was so severe that Utekar and Pawar were crushed inside the tempo," said a police officer.

The police's said that road repair work was underwa...