Truck crossed center line in crash with tour van that killed 7 near Yellowstone, police say

A pickup motortruck that collided with a circuit van adjacent Yellowstone National Park past week, sidesplitting 7 people, crossed the highway's halfway enactment and deed the van, according to Idaho State Police.

Investigating troopers person determined that the Dodge Ram pickup crossed the enactment connected U.S. Highway 20 and struck the Mercedes rider van, Police said successful a Tuesday statement. Police are inactive investigating what caused the operator to veer into oncoming traffic.

There was a radical of 12 Chinese tourists and an Italian tourer connected committee the van, successful summation to the driver. Five of the Chinese tourists, the Italian tourer and the pickup operator died successful the crash, according to police, the Chinese Consulate General successful San Francisco and the Italian Consulate General successful San Francisco.

Police antecedently identified the pickup operator arsenic Isaih Moreno, 25, of Humble, Texas.

The clang happened Thursday evening adjacent Henry’s Lake State Park successful eastbound Idaho. The authorities parkland is astir 16 miles (26 kilometers) westbound of Yellowstone National Park.

The motortruck was traveling westbound portion the van was traveling eastbound toward Yellowstone erstwhile it happened. Video from the country showed wide upwind conditions astatine the time.

Both vehicles caught occurrence aft colliding, constabulary said. DNA tests results volition beryllium needed to place the different radical who died, according to police. The 8 different radical successful the van were injured, constabulary said.

Because a commercialized conveyance was progressive and due to the fact that of the magnitude of the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board is besides conducting an autarkic investigation, constabulary said. NTSB unit person visited the country and are reviewing evidence, according to police.

According to the astir caller information from the International Trade Administration, 36% of planetary visitors who arrived to the U.S. by aerial listed visits to nationalist parks and nationalist monuments arsenic their apical leisure enactment portion successful the country.