An SUV packed with people and a semitruck towing two trailers collided in a rural California county near the Mexican border on Tuesday morning, leaving at least a dozen dead and others hospitalized, officials said.
A massive crash in southern California has killed at least 15 people and put a dozen more in hospital, according to local authorities. Around 6am this morning, an SUV carrying 27 passengers was struck by a semitruck full of gravel in Imperial County, which is near the US border with Mexico. Fourteen of the SUV s passengers died at the scene, and one more died after arriving at El Centro Regional Medical Centre. We believe there were 27 passengers in this SUV that struck a semi-truck full of gravel, said Judy Cruz, managing director of the medical centre s emergency room department. Fourteen were dead on the scene; three were flown out from the scene; seven patients were transported to El Centro Regional Medical Centre, where unfortunately one of those has died since arrival; and two patients were transferred to Pioneers Hospital.
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An SUV packed with 25 people pulled in front of an oncoming tractor-trailer on a two-lane highway cutting through farmland near the Mexican border early Tuesday, killing 13.