Dallas 9-year-old killed in spring break crash near Texas-Oklahoma border
DALLAS - A 9-year-old girl from Dallas was one of two people killed in a crash near the Texas-Oklahoma state line over the weekend.
Three vehicles collided Saturday afternoon near Vernon, which is about 50 miles northwest of Wichita Falls.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said it was raining at the time and the roads were wet.
The driver of a van lost control on a curved section of the road, went through a grassy median, and crashed head-on into an SUV. A third vehicle also hit the SUV.
The driver of the van, 43-year-old Than Than Shwe from Vernon, died. A 14-year-old girl in the van was taken to the hospital.
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A 9-year-old Dallas girl who was in the SUV died at the hospital.
Dallas residents 48-year-old Michael Mullens and 45-year-old Marissa Mullens and two boys, 15 and 13 years old, were also in the SUV and injured in the crash. All four were taken to the hospital with incapacitating injuries.
44-year-old Hernando Trejos and 39-year-old Lorena Trejos from Fort Worth were also injured in the crash. Texas DPS says their injuries were not incapacitating.
They’re being treated at a hospital in Vernon.