Three persons were killed and four others injured in a pre-dawn road accident when the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) they were travelling in rammed a stationary DCM van on the Rajiv Rahadari State highway at Peddakalvala village near the district headquarters town of Peddapalli in the early hours of Sunday.
The SUV with seven persons on board was heading towards Hyderabad from Madhya Pradesh when the accident took place.
The driver of the SUV reportedly lost control of the speeding vehicle, and crashed it into a van parked on the roadside due to a breakdown at Peddakalvala village around 5.20 a.m.