CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — A fatal head on collision in Bee County has resulted in the deaths of four people.
According to Sergeant Harold Mallory with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
A 2006 Chevy Silverado carrying three teenage passengers - two 17-year-old boys and one 16-year-old girl - was traveling northbound on HWY 359 towards Skidmore-Tynan. The Silverado then attempted to pass other vehicles on the roadway when it struck a 2021 Nissan Rouge traveling southbound head on, DPS officials stated.
The collision caused the Rogue to go off the roadway, coming to a stop on the west side of the road. The Silverado veered back into the northbound lane after the collision before going off the roadway and stopping in the grass on the east side of the road.
The driver and one of the passengers in the Silverado have been identified as 17-year-old Roland Rain Saldana of Corpus Christi and 17-year-old Erick James Duhon of Sandia. The other passenger, a 16-year-old girl, was from Mathis.
All three teenagers in the Silverado, along with the driver of the Rouge, 21-year-old Jason Mikhail Balsom from Arlington, were pronounced dead at the scene.
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