1 killed, 3 injured in car accident during trip to Mexico

Sunday morning, 2 Farmington, New Mexico residents were involved in a car accident in Mexico.  The 23- and 26-year old brothers were on a trip visiting family and friends in Nonoava.

Sources close to the family say that the accident occurred in Chihuahua when a drunk driver in a Jeep Cherokee ran a red light, and struck the driver’s side of the vehicle that the 2 brothers were riding in.  The 26-year old was sitting in the backseat of the vehicle behind the driver and was killed in the accident.

Upon impact, the 23-year old brother was ejected from the vehicle out of the rear passenger’s side window.  The younger sibling suffered internal bleeding and was put in a medically induced coma at the hospital.  He remains in the hospital in Mexico.

The brothers’ parents and sister traveled from Farmington to Mexico as soon as they heard about the devastating accident.  The driver and front seat passenger in the vehicle, the brothers’ cousin and his girlfriend, were treated for unspecified injuries after the car accident.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ family after this tragic accident.