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A two-vehicle wreck in the Texas Panhandle left five people dead and one seriously hurt.

Investigators said a minivan driven by, a 14-year-old girl and a truck hauling oversized machinery collided about 10 miles north of Pampa on Wednesday afternoon.

Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said Thursday that all of the victims were in the minivan, which crossed the center line into oncoming traffic on Texas 70.

DPS identified the dead as driver Aime Banuelos, 14, Juan Banuelos; 15, Jeff Pace, 16, and Teresa Martinez, 46, all of Booker, and Estafana Cortez-Rosales of Perryton, 74.

Spokeswoman Caytie Martin at Northwest Texas Healthcare Systems in Amarillo said Celeste Espitia, 5, of Booker was listed in satisfactory condition.

DPS had no details on the relationship of the victims. The truck driver was not hurt.

A 39-year-old Seguin man was killed in a motorcycle wreck Sunday night.

New Braunfels police were called to a motorcycle crash in the 2800 block of Loop 337 at 9:28 p.m. The driver, Paul Rector, died at the scene.

The cause of the wreck is still under investigation, police said.

As details emerge from the fatal crash on Texas 71 that killed a father and two of his children, it appears that the man who caused the wreck said he had fallen asleep at the wheel, a Department of Public Safety trooper said.

John Horn, 29, of Kingsland was driving a Dodge pickup west on Texas 71 about a half-mile west of Spicewood at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 6, 2009 when it crossed the center line and struck a Nissan Altima, officials said.

The truck was so much higher off the ground than the car that it drove across the top of it, said Jose Colombo, a trooper who investigaged the wreck.

Russell Rutland, 37, and two of his children, 4-year-old Madison and 9-year-old Hunter, died at the scene.  Two other children, Zachary, 10, and Cole, 5, were taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin where they were treated and released, Colombo said.  They had all been wearing seat belts or were in child safety seats, he said.

Horn was being held in the Burnet County Jail on charges – filed in April and May – of failing to appear, obstruction or retaliation and driving with an invalid license.  He has not been charged in the collision and toxicology results are still pending.

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