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Someone created a memorial using wooden crosses at the intersection where the accident happened. Credit: AP Photo/Gregory Bull Law enforcement officers work at the scene of a deadly crash in Holtville, Calif., on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Author: CBS News 8 Team Published: 12:30 PM EST March 2, 2021 Updated: 10:06 AM EST March 3, 2021 IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. Four victims of an Imperial County traffic accident that killed at least 13 people and injured more than a dozen others Tuesday were airlifted to San Diego County for emergency care, California Highway Patrol reported. The collision occurred at about 6:15 a.m., when a tractor-trailer struck an SUV carrying an estimated 25 people on State Route 115, just north of Holtville and about 15 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the CHP. ....
Gregory Bull / AP Updated at 5:54 p.m. ET At least 13 people died in a vehicle crash in Imperial County, Calif., on Tuesday, when a crowded Ford Expedition SUV collided with a gravel truck. Local hospital officials initially said 15 people died from the crash, but the California Highway Patrol later lowered the figure. The terrible collision took place Tuesday morning north of the city of Holtville, according to the Imperial County Fire Department. Emergency teams responded to the collision at the intersection where Norrish Rd. crosses a larger thoroughfare, California State Route 115. At this point, it s unknown whether or not the Expedition stopped at the stop sign, California Highway Patrol Chief Omar Watson said, but it did enter the intersection in front of the big rig. ....
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. ....