On Thursday, August 13, an accident on Texas 130 left five family members dead and four injured.
According to Mustang Ridge Police, the accident happened around 8 a.m. off the northbound lanes of Texas 130 in Caldwell County, near the intersection with Texas 21. A light colored SUV blew a tire and left the roadway, rolling down an embankment. In the vehicle were nine people who were Mireya and Antonio Esquivel, their six children and Mireya Esquivel’s mother. They were on their way home to Round Rock from a family vacation in Mexico.
Police say that no one in the vehicle was wearing a seat belt and they do not yet know who was driving nor at what speed the vehicle was travelling.
Mireya and Antonio Esquivel, Mireya’s mother, Maria Carranza, and their 14 year old son Jorge died at the scene and the other five children were taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center by helicopter and ambulances. The four year old child, Nathan died of severe brain trauma in hospital and the four surviving children are now being cared for by relatives. Two of them, nine year old Santos and three year old Jesus have been released although Santos is in a wheelchair with a crushed ankle and broken femur.
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