Two young newlyweds driving separate cars were killed in a freak accident Friday morning when they collided head-on near an egg farm where they worked.
Nicolas Cruz, 31, and Kristina Muñoz, 26, usually took two cars to Marhard Pullet Farm outside Odell, Texas, where they had different shifts, the Times Record News of Wichita Falls reported.
The couple, who got married in April 2013 and had three young kids, were driving separately on a narrow road between two buildings when they collided at about 10 a.m., the newspaper says.
State police said it appeared Muñoz was traveling north in her 1999 Saturn when she crossed into the center of an unmarked road and hit Cruz, who had just gone around a curve in his 1990 Mazda.
Muñoz was driving to an extension building in the farm’s main complex, while Cruz was going from the complex to the extension, officials told the paper.
“This is a very narrow, blacktop county road, and there are no markings,” state Trooper Tony Fulton said. “There are no shoulder markings, and there are no center stripe markings.”
Both the husband and wife were alone in their cars, and police said it didn’t appear either had been wearing a seat belt.
Troopers are looking at whether speed was a factor and said there were no skid marks to indicate either had slammed on the brakes.
Investigators are interviewing people who last saw the couple to find any other possible causes.
Emergency crews had to use special equipment to pull the couple’s bodies from the wreckage.
The Wilbarger County justice of the peace pronounced the couple dead at the scene.
Officials said that many couples work at the farm together and that many take two cars to their jobs.
Facebook photos showed the parents with their children — two boys and a girl.
Cruz and Muñoz were originally from Mexico. They were raising their family in the small Texas town of Chillicothe.
“You will always be with us in our hearts,” relatives and friends posted in Spanish on Muñoz’s Facebook page.
Cruz’s page shows he enjoyed soccer and was from Querétaro, a state in central Mexico.
Muñoz was originally from Tamaulipas in eastern Mexico.
State troopers say they hope to have a full report on the crash by next week.