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Six people died and 10 others were injured when a pickup truck veered into oncoming traffic and hit a passenger van filled with people in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Saturday morning. Among those declared dead at the scene was the van's driver and five of its passengers, Idaho State Police said in a statement. The pickup's driver was hospitalized with unspecified injuries, they said. The nine others hospitalized were passengers in the Chevrolet van, which was struck at 5:29 a.m. on U.S.
The pickup, a Ram model, was heading eastbound near Interstate 15 when it veered left and struck the westbound van, state police said. The reason the pickup went into oncoming traffic wasn't clear. At the time of the crash, the weather in Idaho Falls included a temperature of 34 degrees, clear skies and almost no wind to speak of, according to National Weather Service data.
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