KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas — Three people were injured in a wrong-way crash on U.S. Highway 175 early Sunday morning.
KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas — Three people were injured in a wrong-way crash on U.S. Highway 175 early Sunday morning.
The crash, reported just before 1 a.m., occurred on westbound U.S. Highway 175 near the Farm-to-Market (FM) 1390 exit, on the western city limits of Kaufman, and prompted the closure of the westbound lanes at FM 2578.
Police say a vehicle was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes when it collided with another vehicle head-on, entrapping one person in a four-door vehicle, and two people in a van.
The driver of the wrong-way vehicle, identified by police as 23-year-old Alvaro Munoz-Cordoba, now faces two counts of intoxication assault with a vehicle, according to Kaufman Police Department Captain Ed Black.
Two CareFlite medical helicopters responded to the scene of the crash.
Munoz-Cordoba was airlifted to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. A 53-year-old male occupant of the van was airlifted to Methodist Dallas Medical Center and a 48-year-old male occupant of the van was transported by ground ambulance to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Kaufman where he may have further been transported by helicopter to Dallas-area hospital.
The current conditions for Munoz-Cordoba and the two male occupants of the van are unknown.
The Kaufman Fire Department, CareFlite, Kaufman Police Department, Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office, and the Texas Department of Public Safety responded to the scene.