Four people, including two children, have been identified who died after a drunk driver crashed into a golf cart in Texas over the weekend. police said on Monday.
Police took Felipe Ventacour, 49, Destiny Yuvalle, 25, Braylin Cantu, 14, and his 4-year-old Caixin Ventacour, to Galveston late Saturday night in Galveston. was named as the victim of a fatal accident that occurred in
The relationship of his four murdered victims was not immediately known, but police said two different families were on the cart at the time.
Bentacur died at the scene, and Uvalle and his two children were pronounced dead after being taken to hospital.
Two other passengers in his golf cart, an adult and a minor, remain in hospital in critical condition, police said. Their identities have not been made public.
At approximately 11:30 p.m., the six victims were traveling in a golf cart when suspected drunk driver Miguel Espinoza, 45, drove through a stop sign. was
Galveston Police Sergeant. Derek Gaspard said Espinoza crashed his SUV into a pickup his truck, which hit a golf cart.
Espinoza and his passenger suffered minor injuries during the ordeal. I lost. Police said they were treated in hospital and then released.
Gaspard said he believed his rented golf cart was legally moving in the city streets at the time of the crash.
Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said golf carts were "pretty I became prolific,” he added. Transportation for Island Resort Area Residents and Visitors”.
"I was out last night," Brown said on Sunday. "The island was busy and there were residential golf carts and rental golf carts all over the streets."
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