HOLTVILLE â Thirteen persons died in a two-vehicle crash at Norrish Road and Highway 115 near Holtville Tuesday morning.
California Highway Patrol Border Division Chief Omar Watson at a Tuesday morning press conference said the fatalities were all from 25 occupants in a maroon Ford Expedition SUV that was struck on its left side by a semi-truck hauling two gravel trailers at the intersection about 6:15 a.m.
Watson said that at the time of the crash, the semi was traveling north on Highway 115 and the Expedition was traveling west on Norrish Road.
Watson said it is unknown if the Expedition stopped at the stop sign, but the SUV entered the intersection in front of the semi-truck, leading to the collision.
Los Angeles: A collision between a big rig and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the US-Mexico border Tuesday morning killed at least 13 and injured several others, officials said.
Both the number of people travelling in the SUV and the number of victims was unclear. Judy Cruz, the emergency department director at El Centro Regional Medical Centre, said 28 people were in the vehicle.
But Arturo Platero, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol’s El Centro office, said there were 25 people inside the Ford Expedition SUV, which is built for seven or eight travellers. He said the vehicle was carrying at least one teenager.
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LOS ANGELES — A collision between a big rig and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning killed at least 13 and injured
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