Seven people have died after a pickup truck and a tour van collided near Yellowstone National Park on May 1, Idaho State police said.
At 7:15 p.m. local time, a Dodge Ram pickup truck collided with a Mercedes passenger van near Henry’s Lake, which is about 20 miles east of Yellowstone, police said in a news release. The van was transporting a tour group and caught fire after the crash. First responders including an air ambulance treated more than a dozen patients.
There were 14 people on board the van and one in the pickup. Six people in the van and the driver of the pickup died as a result of the crash.
Officials told the East Idaho News and the New York Times all six people who died in the van were from outside the United States. Idaho State Police spokesperson Aaron Snell told USA TODAY he is awaiting confirmation on information about the victims.
“Due to the magnitude of the incident and the ongoing process of notifying the next of kin, no names, ages, hometowns, or nationalities have been released,” the news release says.
The highway where the crash happened was closed for nearly seven hours while emergency responders were on scene, police said. The road reopened May 2. The cause of the collision is under investigatio
