The CRPF personnel were on way to Bandipora town, 55 kms from here, from Sumbal village for election duty, a police spokesman said.
Three constituencies of Bandipora district are going to polls along with 12 other Assembly seats in the first phase of the five-phased elections in Jammu and Kashmir next week.
The spokesman said the driver of the truck, carrying the CRPF personnel from Sumbal village to Bandipora, lost control near a petrol pump at Chewa last evening.