CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — An accident that occurred Monday afternoon, around 1:30 p.m. on the 6200 block of Old Brownsville Road claimed the lives of two people.

According to Corpus Christi Police Department Senior Officer, Antonio Contreras, a dump truck was headed north on Old Brownsville when an SUV, headed the opposite direction, skidded on the wet road and crashed head-on into the dump truck.

The driver and a front-seat passenger in the SUV died at the scene. A child in the backseat was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Police say the driver of the dump truck was also taken to the hospital as a precaution.

The deadly crash shut down Old Brownsville Road for several hours as traffic investigators gathered evidence and cleared the roadways.

The victims in Monday'

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