Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 1st
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. (AP) - A car returning from a Boy Scout camp veered into an oncoming lane and slammed head-on into a motorhome Saturday, killing five people and injuring four others, the Wyoming Highway Patrol said.
All four people in the car and a 3-year-old passenger in the motor home were killed in the collision on Highway 120 in northcentral Wyoming, Sgt. Stephen Townsend said.
The other four people in the motor home were injured in the 10 a.m. MDT crash in Hot Springs County, but their conditions were not immediately available.
The person believed to be the driver was flown to a Billings, Mont., hospital, while the other three were rushed to a Thermopolis hospital, about 35 miles south of the crash site, Townsend said in a news release.
The car was one of three vehicles carrying a group of Boy Scouts back to the Colorado Springs area after spending time at a Scout camp in northwest Wyoming, he said. The other two vehicles were not involved in the crash.
No names or other information about the dead and injured were released, and patrol spokesmen couldn't be reached late Saturday night for further details.
The patrol said crash investigators were trying to determine why the car crossed into the oncoming lane.
The motor home had been towing a passenger car.
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