SUV crash near U.S.-Mexico border: What we know
Authorities said they are still unsure what brought the SUV into the path of the truck and why so many people were inside of it.
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Authorities said they are still unsure what brought the SUV into the path of the truck and why so many people were inside of it.
HOLTVILLE, Calif. — At least 13 people died after an SUV packed with dozens of passengers collided with a semitruck near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, according to California Highway Patrol officials. California Highway Patrol Division Chief Omar Watson said the crash involved a big rig hauling two trailers and a Ford Expedition carrying 25 people. The big rig smashed into the side of the SUV before 6:15 a.m. PST at the intersection of State Route 115 and Norrish Road near Holtville, about 50 miles west of Arizona and 10 miles north of the border. Authorities, late Tuesday, said they ...
13 dead after big rig slams SUV carrying 25 people, survivors airlifted to Palm Springs At least 13 people were killed when an SUV carrying 25 people crashed into a big rig Tuesday morning in Imperial County Four patients from the crash are being treated at Desert Regional Medical Center. Three are in the ICU, DRMC Spokesperson Todd Burke confirms to News Channel 3. The El Centro Regional Medical Center reported 25 passengers riding in a 1997 Ford Expedition crashed into a semi-truck full of gravel on Tuesday morning. CHP added that the ages of the passengers ranged from 15 to 53 years old....
HOLTVILLE, Calif. (KABC) -- Thirteen people were killed and several others were seriously injured after an SUV carrying 25 people collided with a big rig in Imperial County Tuesday morning, according to officials. The California Highway Patrol said over two dozen people were in a maroon 1997 Ford Expedition, which would typically seat eight to nine people legally, that collided with an empty tractor-trailer on Highway 115 at Norrish Road in Holtville -- located about 125 miles east of San Diego and about 15 miles north of the Mexico border. CHP officials say at the intersection the SUV drove ...
4 Min Read HOLTVILLE, Calif. (Reuters) - At least 13 people, 10 of them Mexican nationals, were killed on Tuesday when a tractor-trailer slammed into an SUV crammed with 25 adults and children on a dusty Southern Californian road near the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents opened an investigation into whether human smuggling was involved, an agency spokeswoman said in a statement hours later. Handmade wooden crosses stretched in a line across a patch of dry grass and dirt by the roadside, and a seat covered in what appeared to be blood la...