Crash Kills 6 from L.A.; 3 Are Children
Two adults, a teenager and three children, all Los Angeles residents, died Thursday when the pickup truck in which they were traveling hit a parked truck on a border highway in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
A seventh passenger, 17-year-old Jose Briceno, was slightly injured in the accident near San Luis Rio Colorado, across the border from Yuma, Arizona.
The driver of the pickup truck apparently did not see a tractor trailer stopped on the shoulder of the highway for a routine inspection, authorities told the government news agency Notimex.
The dead were identified as Abel Longoria Dominguez, 28; Gabriela Polanco Viera 30; Elizabeth Jimenez Becerra, 17; and Liria, Lizbeth and Leslie Salcedo Polanco, ages 6, 7 and 10, respectively.
All the victims were identified as Mexican citizens who lived in Los Angeles.
The accident occurred on the highway that leads from San Luis Rio Colorado to Sonoyta, Sonora. The victims were headed for the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta, police said.
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