Four members of a single family were killed and another four severely injured in a car crash on Monday.

“The accident occurred near the village of Abraq on the road to Madinah in the early hours,” Naif Al-Ahmadi of the Saudi Red Crescent Society in Madinah region told Arab News.

“Four of the victims were killed on the spot and four others are battling for their lives in hospital, while another two people sustained moderate injuries,” said Al-Ahmadi.

The Saudi Red Crescent Society had immediately dispatched five rapid action and ambulances to the scene and shifted the injured a nearby hospital.

Al-Ahmadi urged drivers to drive carefully while traveling to and from Madinah.

Three members of a single family were killed along with their housemaid, while six others were injured in a separate incident on Saturday.