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Pickup Loses Control On FM Curve

POSTED: 6:40 am CST January 11, 2006
UPDATED: 6:51 am CST January 11, 2006

ZAVALA COUNTY, Texas -- A pickup overloaded with illegal immigrants crashed in Zavala County Tuesday night, killing two people and critically injuring 10 others.

Department of Public Safety officials said that a Ford F250 with approximately 15 to 20 illegal immigrants was northbound on FM 1867 south of Batesville at 7:30 p.m. when the driver lost control on a curve and crashed.

Nearly all of the occupants were ejected from the vehicle, DPS officials said.

Two men and a woman were killed. Two of the critically injured were airlifted to University Hospital in San Antonio, and eight other victims were transported to a Uvalde hospital.

Witnesses at the scene told KSAT 12 News that some of the other immigrants fled the scene into high brush.

Border Patrol K-9 teams were searching for survivors late into the evening and the search was expected to resume Wednesday morning.