The wreckage of the car after the accident at Batu 14, Jalan Apas, Tawau, this morning. (PDRM pic)TAWAU: Three members of a family were killed while a 15-year-old girl was seriously injured after the car they were travelling in skidded off the road at Batu 14, Jalan Apas, here at about 9.30am today.

Tawau police chief Rosdi Mat Jusoh said the deceased were a 50-year-old woman and her two sons, aged 30 and 28, who were pronounced dead at the scene.

He said the family was travelling from Kampung Bahagia, Sandakan, to Tawau when the 28-year-old son, who was driving, is believed to have lost control of the car along a straight stretch of road.

The vehicle skidded, hit an oil palm tree, travelled another 60m and overturned.