Four people were killed in a traffic accident taking place Friday evening on a freeway between Xiangtan city and Shaoyang city of central-south China's Hunan Province.

According to a local police source, a Buick car collided with a van loaded with hydrochloric acid around 7 p.m., leaving four people in the car dead.

The tragedy caused a traffic jam and, by press time, the traffic resumed.
 
(Xinhua News Agency September 4, 2004)