HOUSTON, Aug 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) – An overloaded and over-speeding van, crashed yesterday, on a remote South Texas highway, killing at least 10 people, including the driver, and injuring 20 others, authorities said.
The crash happened shortly after 4:00 p.m. local time (0500 GMT) in Encino, about 80 km north of Texas’ border city, McAllen, after the van, designed to hold 15 passengers but overloaded with 29 passengers, lost control around a curve, on Highway 281, Nathan Brandley, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said.
Brandley said all the injured were in serious or critical conditions.
Brooks County Sheriff, Urbino Martinez said, he believed most of the passengers were migrants, because in recent years, a surge in migrants crossing the border illegally, has caused a rise in the number of crashes involving vehicles jammed with migrants, who pay a large amount of money to be smuggled into the country.– NNN-AGENCIES
