Satna (MP): A couple and their 10-year-old son were killed when a truck laden with iron rods veered to one side and crushed their car in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district on Saturday, police said.

Uchehara police station in-charge Satish Mishra said that the couple's 8-year-old daughter survived the accident that took place near Rangla village on Satna-Maihar road.

The officer said a truck hit the car, overturned it and crushed it.

He said that Kuldeep Dwivedi (38), his wife Ruchi (35) and their son Gopal (10) died in the accident, while their daughter survived. Police said she was in shock.

The officer said that Kuldeep was an employee of a Navodaya Vidyalaya in Chhattisgarh and was going to his native place in Uttar Pradesh.