SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Two children were among four people killed when a car collided with a minivan on a rural Northern California highway, authorities said.
The wreck came as a Toyota Prius crossed the center line on Highway 50 near Placerville on Saturday night and struck a Toyota Sienna minivan “broadside,” said California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer John Frizzell. The crash also left five people injured.
Three people in the Prius – a 39-year-old man driving the car, a woman and a child – were killed in the crash, Frizzell said. Another child in the car suffered moderate injuries. Three of the victims who died lived in the San Francisco Bay area. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
Of the five people in the minivan, a 4-year-old girl was killed, Frizzell said. She died after being taken to a hospital. The four others – the 35-year-old female driver, a 51-year-old man and two 1-year-olds suffered minor to moderate injuries. By late Sunday afternoon no names had been released.
Weather conditions at the time of the crash were clear.