AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Seven people were killed and eight were injured after a van carrying more than a dozen tourists collided with a pickup truck on a highway near Yellowstone National Park, Idaho State Police said Saturday.
The cause of the accident, which occurred about an hour and 15 minutes before sunset on Thursday, is still under investigation, police said. The passenger van was carrying a tour group of 14 people when it collided with a pickup truck near Henry’s Lake and caught fire. Six people in the van and the driver of the pickup truck died.
All eight survivors of the van were taken to the hospital with various injuries.
The New York Times quoted Fremont County Coroner Brenda Die as saying that the driver of the pickup truck was from Texas and the six passengers in the van who died were foreigners, two of them from Italy.