Deadly wrecks: 6 dead, more wounded

TO CLOSE

Robstown police hunt ends with 6 dead and several injured
Courtney M Sacco, Corpus Christi Caller-Times

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Police sued a speeding vehicle that was found Wednesday morning in a fatal accident in a field where six people were killed and several others injured.

At least one other person suspected of being in the SUV during his crash was still wanted Wednesday afternoon.

Robstown Police, EMS, Nueces County Sheriff's Office, Coast Guard and Texas DPS reacted to the fatal accident and spent several hours at the scene. The border patrol also reacted because the group of about 14 people would be composed of undocumented immigrants from other countries, including El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and the United States. Mexico, officials said the sheriff.

The accident, discovered early Wednesday during heavy rains, occurred near the town of Robstown just west of Corpus Christi.

Robstown Medical Services Chief, Roland Padilla, said a vehicle had crashed into a ditch in a sorghum field.

Several people trapped inside had to be rescued and taken to hospitals in the area.

Police at Robstown said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon that the lawsuit had started before midnight Tuesday near the railroad tracks when an officer saw the vehicle speeding and had tried to control the traffic.

The police pursued the vehicle until the officers lost sight of it in a scrub area just outside the city limits, police chief Erasmo Flores said.

Judge Hooper, sheriff of Nueces County, said that it was until about 4 pm Wednesday, hours later, that a resident called 911 to report an injured at the door . This person was not found, but about an hour later another call was reported. Two young men, apparently injured, were walking along a road.

The deputies found these two men, who spoke only Spanish, and after a few hours of searching, they found the scene of the accident in an isolated field, Hooper said.

A police chase from Robstown of about 14 people in a suburb Tuesday night ended with the discovery of a wreck on Wednesday morning, killing six people, injuring five others and detaining them. by the Border Patrol located just outside Robstown, Texas. The Border Patrol and Corpus Christi Police Department were both at the Bay Area Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, where some of the wounded were being treated. (Photo: Rachel Denny Clow / Caller-Times)

Corpus Christi police participate in the reconstruction of the crash.

Hooper said that although the number of deaths is not common, these types of incidents are common along Highway 77 in South Texas because of its proximity to the US-Mexico border.

"It has the classic appearance of human trafficking," he said. "We are a pipeline, we are in a corridor leading to Houston, Texas, and the first responders treat it every day."

Six people died, five others were seriously injured, two people were found on the road and another person is still missing, Hooper added.

All occupants of the sport utility vehicle were men between the end of their teenage years and their early twenties.