Houston-Area Spring Breakers Killed In Crash
POSTED: Friday, March 16, 2007
UPDATED: 4:18 pm CDT March 16,
2007
HOUSTON -- Three people were killed and another was injured in a crash while driving home from a spring break trip, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.
San Antonio police said the driver of a Ford Mustang was speeding on the access road of Interstate 10 near Ramsgate Street shortly before 10 p.m.
The driver lost control, crashed through a concrete rail and plunged 33 feet onto the main lanes of the freeway, investigators said.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner said Bryan Troung, 19, of Pearland, Priscilla Espinosa, 18, of Friendswood, and Mario Alberto Trejo, 20, were killed.
Police said driver Nicole Taylor Cummings, of La Porte, survived the crash. She is in stable condition at University Hospital.
Espinosa's grandmother said she had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, but her granddaughter really wanted to go to Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio with her friends.
"I felt like something was going to happen because I don't like the way I feel," Virginia Garza said. "I just felt like crying, like something's going to happen. I told my husband if I would have known that this was going to happen I wouldn't have let her go."
Garza, who raised Espinosa since she was 9 months old, said her granddaughter was going to turn 19 next week.
"I can't believe she's gone," Garza said.
A motorcyclist swerved to avoid the wreck and hit sand barrels, police said. He was transported to University Hospital and is expected to recover.
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