Six people were killed and five others were injured after a minibus trying to overtake a vehicle in a restricted area on a Texas highway collided head-on with an SUV, which then reversed into another vehicle, according to authorities.
Sgt. Guadalupe Casarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the accident occurred around 6:20 pm Friday near George West, about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Corpus Christi.
“It was a pretty drastic scene,” Casarez said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety mentioned that the incident was under investigation on Monday. However, the department said in a press release that a minibus traveling south on US Highway 59 attempted to pass through a restricted area and crashed head-on into the northbound SUV. A sedan then slammed into the back of the SUV.
Casarez noted that the passing car was not hit in the crash.
The minivan driver, Xochitl Veronica Lopez, 39, of Houston, died at the scene with a juvenile in the vehicle, according to the department.
The driver of the SUV, Salvador Almeida Mendoza, 47, of Ganado, Texas, was also killed along with two passengers, Ilda Briones Nieves, 58, and Honorio Lazo Navarro, 74, both from Ganado.
The sixth person who was killed was a passenger in the car, whose name was not revealed.
The Department of Public Safety explained that five other people were taken to a hospital with "non-incapacitating injuries".
Casarez said authorities so far do not yet believe alcohol was a factor.
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