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Arab Times
03-05-2025
- Arab Times
7 people dead after a truck and tour van collided near Yellowstone: police
BOISE, Idaho, May 3, (AP): A pickup truck collided with a tour van carrying a number of foreign travelers on a highway leading to Yellowstone National Park, leaving seven people dead and eight others injured, Idaho State Police said. The crash happened just before 7:15 pm Thursday on US Highway 20 near Henry's Lake State Park in eastern Idaho, police said in a news release. The state park is roughly 16 miles (26 kilometers) west of Yellowstone National Park. Police have not said what exactly caused the wreck, but the Dodge Ram truck was traveling west while the Mercedes van was traveling east toward Yellowstone when it happened. Video from the scene showed clear weather conditions at the time. Both vehicles caught fire, police said. The driver of the pickup and six people inside the Mercedes passenger van died. The truck driver was identified Friday as Isaih Moreno, 25, of Humble, Texas. Identifying the others will take some time, according to police. Fremont County coroner, Brenda Dye, told The New York Times that she was waiting for DNA test results to identify the six others because the bodies were unrecognizable. She said all six were from outside the US. Two were from Italy. China's Consulate General in San Francisco said that five Chinese citizens were killed in the accident and another eight were injured. "The consulate expressed deep condolences for the dead and sincere sympathy to the injured and the families of those affected,' according to the official Xinhua news agency. It was in contact with the family members and providing support, it said. It was not immediately clear why there was a discrepancy between the figures given by Chinese officials and the Fremont County coroner. The van was carrying a tour group of 14 people, and the surviving occupants were taken to hospitals with injuries, police spokesperson Aaron Snell said. Two were flown to an Idaho Falls hospital and one was flown to a Bozeman, Montana, hospital, according to police. Their conditions were not released. The others were taken to area hospitals with injuries believed to be non-life-threatening, police said. The crash remains under investigation.
South China Morning Post
03-05-2025
- South China Morning Post
5 Chinese tourists among 7 killed in US after tour van and truck in horror smash near Yellowstone
A pickup truck collided with a tour van carrying foreign travellers on a highway leading to Yellowstone National Park, leaving seven people dead and eight others injured, Idaho State Police said. Advertisement China's consulate in San Francisco said that five Chinese citizens were killed in the accident and another eight were injured. The crash happened just before 7.15pm on Thursday on US Highway 20 near Henry's Lake State Park in eastern Idaho, police said. The state park is roughly 26km (16 miles) west of Yellowstone National Park. Police have not said what exactly caused the wreck, but the Dodge Ram truck was travelling west while the Mercedes van was travelling east toward Yellowstone. Video from the scene showed clear weather conditions at the time. Both vehicles caught fire, police said. The driver of the pickup and six people inside the Mercedes passenger van died. The truck driver was identified on Friday as Isaih Moreno, 25, of Humble, Texas. Identifying the others will take some time, according to police. Advertisement Fremont County coroner, Brenda Dye, told The New York Times that she was waiting for DNA test results to identify the six others because the bodies were unrecognisable. She said all six were from outside the US. Two were from Italy.
South China Morning Post
03-05-2025
- South China Morning Post
5 Chinese tourists among 7 killed in US after tour van and truck collide near Yellowstone
A pickup truck collided with a tour van carrying a number of foreign travellers on a highway leading to Yellowstone National Park, leaving seven people dead and eight others injured, Idaho State Police said. Advertisement The crash happened just before 7.15pm on Thursday on US Highway 20 near Henry's Lake State Park in eastern Idaho, police said. The state park is roughly 26km (16 miles) west of Yellowstone National Park. Police have not said what exactly caused the wreck, but the Dodge Ram truck was travelling west while the Mercedes van was travelling east toward Yellowstone when it happened. Video from the scene showed clear weather conditions at the time. Both vehicles caught fire, police said. The driver of the pickup and six people inside the Mercedes passenger van died. The truck driver was identified on Friday as Isaih Moreno, 25, of Humble, Texas. Identifying the others will take some time, according to police. Fremont County coroner, Brenda Dye, told The New York Times that she was waiting for DNA test results to identify the six others because the bodies were unrecognisable. She said all six were from outside the US. Advertisement China's consulate in San Francisco said that five Chinese citizens were killed in the accident and another eight were injured.
Straits Times
03-05-2025
- Straits Times
Seven people killed in road crash near Yellowstone
All eight of the survivors from the van were taken to hospitals with varying degrees of injuries. PHOTO: HOMSKYRA/X BOISE, Idaho - Seven people were killed, and eight others injured after a van carrying more than a dozen tourists collided with a pickup truck in a fiery highway crash near Yellowstone National Park, Idaho state police said on May 2. The cause of the accident, which occurred about an hour and 15 minutes before sunset on May 1, remains under investigation, according to a state police news release. The Mercedes passenger van was transporting a tour group with 14 people aboard near Henry's Lake when it collided with a Dodge Ram pickup, then burst into flames, police said. Six people from the van as well as the pickup driver, its only occupant, were killed, according to police. All eight of the survivors from the van were taken to hospitals with varying degrees of injuries, police spokesperson Aaron Snell said. Information about the victims was being kept confidential pending notification of next of kin. The New York Times cited Fremont County coroner Brenda Dye as saying that the pickup driver was from Texas and that all six occupants of the van who died were from outside the United States, two of them from Italy. The accident occurred on US Highway 20 near Henry's Lake in eastern Idaho, about 20 miles west of Yellowstone. Weather conditions appeared clear in news video from the scene. Authorities provided no details about the circumstances of the accident. According to Ms Dye, two eyewitnesses to the crash jumped out of their vehicle to pull victims from the van, and managed to extract eight people from the wreckage, including a child, before the van caught fire, the Times reported. State police said the highway was closed in both directions for nearly seven hours while emergency and transportation crews worked to manage the scene and clear the roadway. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Metro
02-05-2025
- Metro
Tour van crashes and kills seven near national park
A tour van collided with a pickup truck near Yellowstone National Park and both erupted in flames, killing seven people. The vehicles crashed into each other on US Highway 20 close to Henry's Lake shortly before 7.15pm on Thursday, according to Idaho State Police. Six of the 14 people in the Mercedes van were killed, and the driver of the Dodge Ram pickup also died. Two people on the highway who witnessed the collision were 'trying to pull out as many as they could' from the smoking van, Fremont County coroner Brenda Dye told The New York Times. They managed to rescue eight people, including a child, before the van caught on fire. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Boys 'go outside for first time in years' after rescue from 'house of horrors' MORE: Gang stole £500 from man they wrongly abducted and gave him back £20 in compensation MORE: UN judge who kept woman as a slave while studying law at Oxford is jailed
