Six people were killed in a head-on crash at U.S. 67 and County Road 1119 near the community of Nemo in Johnson County Tuesday evening.
One of the six victims killed in a grinding Johnson County crash have now been identified by the Department of Public Safety.
On Tuesday afternoon officials say a van and a pick-up truck slammed head-on into another on Highway 67 about mid-way between Cleburne and Glen Rose. A total of nine people were aboard the two vehicles and only three survived.
The victims killed include six of the seven people in the Honda Odyssey -- and one of them was the driver, an Irving resident named Rushil Barri. The passengers who died have not been publicly identified but DPS says they are five people from Alpharetta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Two children died in the crash. nine and ten years old. Three adults, a 64-year-old man, a 60-year-old woman, and a 36-year-old woman were also killed.
The three survivors were taken to two Fort Worth hospitals with what DPS calls critical injuries. One of them is the driver of the pick-up, 17-year-old Luke Resecker, and his passenger, 17-year-old Preston Glass who both live in Glen Rose.
The Georgia resident who survives is a 26-year-old man.
DPS investigators say they are working with Georgia State Police to locate and notify the families of the victims. The investigation shows that the van and pick-up were going in opposite directions when the pick-up truck, in a no-passing zone, pulled across the center line where it slammed into the van.
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