HO CHI MINH CITY, April 7 (Xinhua) -- A truck and a seven-seater car made a head-on collision on Sunday in Vietnam’s southern Dong Nai province, killing three people and injuring two others, local media reported.

The accident on national road 20 in Dinh Quan district killed three passengers of the car, including two women aged 52 and 69, both from central Thanh Hoa province, and a 30-year-old woman from Dong Nai, Vietnam News Agency reported. Among the two seriously wounded people is the car’s driver from Dong Nai.

In the first quarter of this year, 4,030 traffic accidents happened in Vietnam, killing 1,905 people, severely injuring 1,209 people and lightly hurting 1,932 others, according to the country's Traffic Police Department.