Police said the Swift car which was carrying eight passengers from Mathura for Agra, banged into a tanker near Jai Gurudev Ashram on the Mathura bypass, in the wee hours. Of the seven students three Sanjay, Mohit and Sunil, all IT students of Sainath College in Sikandra, Agra died on the spot. The injured have been admitted to a private nursing home in Agra.

 To earn extra to support studies these students worked as waiters for a caterer who had taken them to Mathura for a party. On their way back they took a lift in a car whose driver appears to have gone to sleep for a while when the terrible accident occured, police sources said.