It was before dawn when Care Flight Helicopter brought the first of the five seriously injured victims to Dallas.
This one, a young child.
Do you remember what happened to you?
Fifteen people from several different families were packed inside this crumpled van when the accident occurred around 3.30 this morning.
Wrecker driver Doug Hawley describes the scene.
People scattered everywhere, all over the highway, land every which way.
Everybody trying to help everybody.
The van was headed west on I-30 near Caddo Mills when the driver apparently ran off the road
and dropped nearly a foot into a construction zone.
Whenever the van tried to correct back and try to get back up on the main travel part of the roadway,
then it rolled approximately two and a quarter times.
Two of the injured were flown to Methodist Medical Center in Dallas.
others to Parkland. Of the three victims taken to Parkland, two were treated and
listed in fair condition by mid-afternoon. The third, a toddler, was
transferred to Children's Medical Center and listed in good condition. The other
ten were treated at Presbyterian Hospital in Greenville. The emergency
physician was on and he instituted the disaster plan. We had three more
physicians come in. The ironic part is the victims were returning from a
funeral when this tragedy occurred. Brian Mylar, Texas News 5.