A pair of workers were killed when their pickup truck, loaded with oxygen cylinders, careered into a toll plaza divider.
CCTV footage captures the vehicle slamming into the divider at high speed, sending heavy metal cylinders flying across the road.
The impact leaves the front of the pickup badly mangled, with the driver and his colleague trapped inside the wreckage.
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The crash happened at around 4.20pm on Friday (16 October), near the Shekhpura toll plaza on the Lucknow–Raebareli highway in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The pickup was travelling from Lucknow to Prayagraj with a load of oxygen cylinders when the driver lost control.
Several cylinders were sent hurtling through the air before scattering across the carriageway.
Toll plaza manager Rakesh Kumar said three cylinders exploded in the crash, causing oxygen to spread through the area like smoke.
He said visibility was reduced to almost nothing for around 10 minutes, as reported by Need To Know.
Fortunately, there were no other vehicles immediately ahead of or behind the pickup at toll gate number one.
The driver, named in reports as Indrajit Patel, and his colleague, Rameshchandra, were trapped inside the wrecked cabin.
Police and passers-by worked to free the pair before they were taken to a community health centre in Mohanlalganj.
However, doctors pronounced both men dead.
Patel was from Devpur in Prayagraj, while Rameshchandra was from Jaunpur, according to local reports.
The crash temporarily disrupted traffic in both directions as police cleared the wreckage and scattered cylinders from the highway.
Police are investigating the circumstances of the collision.
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