Police said that most of the victims were members of the same family, who were returning to their village after attending a wedding ceremony when the accident occurred. Inspector-in-charge of Rangar Nangal police station Gurvinder Singh said that there were six people in the car and they were going from Batala to Chahalkalan, which is about seven kilometers from Batala on the Jalandhar road. They were returning from a wedding ceremony when their car and the truck collided head-on.