SEGUIN, Texas — Five people — two adults and three children — were killed on Sunday afternoon when the black Chevrolet Tahoe they were riding in left Interstate 10, went off a bridge and crashed onto the road below, the Seguin Police Department said. The single-vehicle crash happened at FM 725 and IH-10, beside the Love's Travel Stop on the eastern side of Seguin, at around 1:30 p.m. on November 8.

Source: Angelo News, citing Seguin Police Department

According to the Seguin Police Department, the Tahoe was travelling eastbound on IH-10 when it left the roadway, went off the bridge and fell onto FM 725, the farm-to-market road that passes underneath the interstate at that point. News 4 San Antonio, reporting the same police account, put the crash shortly before 1 p.m. and likewise described the vehicle leaving the eastbound lanes, going off the bridge and landing on FM 725. CBS Austin carried the same account of the crash.

Source: News 4 San Antonio (WOAI)

All five people in the Tahoe died. Police described the dead as two adults and three children. Their names and ages have not been released, because officers are still notifying their next of kin, the department said. Consistent with that position, no ages for the children have been published, and Awaaz Punjab is not naming or describing the child victims beyond what police have confirmed.

Source: CBS Austin via The Austin News

The rescue under the bridge

Dispatch audio from the response, published as an automatically generated transcript, captures how the scene first reached emergency crews: a caller reported a single vehicle that had driven off the highway and come to rest upside down under the bridge, on its roof, with one person confirmed trapped inside and a belief that children might be in the vehicle but were not responding. Crews moved to stabilise the overturned Tahoe and begin extrication while law-enforcement officers blocked the road. The transcript is a dispatch record, not a final police report, and details in it may be corrected as the investigation proceeds.

Source: Seguin dispatch audio transcript (US Crime Radar)

The Seguin Police Department closed the road at the scene while officers and investigators worked the crash. Later dispatch traffic from the same response described crews requesting lifting struts under the I-10 bridge and a heavy rotator — the heavy-duty wrecker used to right and remove large wrecked vehicles — requested through Seguin police, a sign of how difficult the recovery under the bridge was. A separate, minor two-vehicle crash on I-10 near mile marker 604, almost directly above the main scene, was handled at the same time with only minor vehicle damage reported.

What investigators have — and have not — said

Police have not said why the Tahoe left the eastbound lanes. No cause — speed, a medical emergency, a mechanical failure, distraction or impairment — has been announced, and no other vehicle has been reported as involved. The crash remains under investigation by the Seguin Police Department, and the identification of the five dead is expected to be released only after their families have been told. Until police publish those findings, every account of why this happened is speculation, and this report will be updated when the department issues them.

A freight corridor where a Sunday drive turned fatal

Interstate 10 at Seguin is one of the busiest east–west freight corridors in the southern United States, carrying long-haul trucks between San Antonio, about 35 miles to the west, and Houston, about 170 miles to the east, as well as heavy Sunday-afternoon family and holiday-season traffic. FM 725 is the local road that slips beneath the interstate at the Love's Travel Stop — a stop familiar to truckers running the San Antonio–Houston leg. For the many Punjabi truck drivers who work this corridor, the interchange is routine: fuel, food and a place to park. On Sunday it became the site of the deadliest single-vehicle crash in the city this year.

It was also the second fatal crash to shake Seguin in less than a week — a separate and unrelated event. In the early hours of Monday, November 2, two Texas Lutheran University football players, A'Jean Augustine, 20, and Deyreck Dean, 23, were killed when their SUV struck a guardrail on State Highway 46 North in the city. That crash, which police said involved high speed, is a different incident on a different road; the only link between the two is a small Texas city now mourning twice in seven days.

Awaaz Punjab will update this story when the Seguin Police Department releases the victims' identities and its findings on the cause of the crash.

Source: Angelo News