A man and his three-year-old daughter died on Sunday and his wife was critically injured when a truck rammed several vehicles on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, police said.
The Kashmir-bound truck hit four cars coming from the opposite side near Magerkote in Ramban district, they said.
The deceased were identified as Jatinder Singh (33) of Tral and his minor daughter Navdeep Kaur, a police official said.
Singh's wife Rimple Kaur (30) was hospitalised with critical injuries, he said.
Seven more people escaped with minor injuries, the official said, adding that the driver of the truck abandoned his vehicle and fled the scene.
A case was registered and efforts are on to arrest him, he said.
The official said preliminary investigations suggested break failure caused the truck driver to lose control over the vehicle.
Meanwhile, the officials said 35-year-old Uttar Pradesh resident Ashu, who was among 12 people injured in a separate road accident on the highway on Saturday, succumbed to injuries at a hospital, taking the death count in the incident to three.
Two Power Centres Are "Recipe For Disaster": Omar Abdullah Omar Abdullah Chairs First Cabinet Meet In Jammu, Discusses Reservation, Employment Jammu To Have Separate Railway Division: Union Minister Jitendra Singh Bengaluru Techie Loses Rs 11.8 Crore After "Digital Arrest" "Daughter Doesn't Know Her Mother's Dead": 'Pushpa 2' Stampede Victim's Husband Kolkata Man Gets Divorce As "Imposition Of Wife's Friend" Is Deemed Cruelty 21 Cybercriminals Arrested For Duping People Of Rs 125 Crore: Police Parts Of Delhi Face Water Shortage As Ammonia Levels Rise In Yamuna Meet Botto, The AI Artist Who's Making Millions With Its Digital Creations Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.