Five teenagers were killed in a fiery car crash when their SUV collided with a truck carrying gasoline. Sunday's accident occurred at the intersection of two country roads in Dumas, about 45 miles north of Amarillo. Texas. The accident sent both vehicles up in flames/
Authorities said the five teenagers died at the scene, according to WLOX and CNN. The truck driver Ezequiel Garcia was in critical condition Tuesday with burns over 65 percent of his body, according to reports.
16-year-old Jacob Paul Stipe, of Sunray, was driving when the Chevrolet Cruze went through a stop sign and was hit on the passenger side by the tanker, according to authorities Stipe was killed, as was Derrek Lee Hager and Christopher Lee Moore, both were 17 and from Sunray. October Dawn Roys, 17, and her younger sister, Elizabeth Kay Roys, 15 were also killed in the crash. Preliminary reports have not ruled out alcohol.
News of the accident has not reached many of the teenagers' friends who are currently vacationing on Spring Break.
"It's had a big effect on the whole area, and I think it always seems more tragic when you have a loss of life when people are so young," Dr. David Bonner, mayor pro tem of Dumas, told the Associated Press.
The Texas crash follows several other high-profile crashes around the United States, including one also on Sunday that killed six teenagers in Ohio. The bodies of the two boys and two girls, between the ages of 15 to 17, were recovered from Forked Creek near the city of Wilmington, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago in a separate accident on Tuesday.
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