{"id":346480,"date":"2026-06-23T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346480\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:42:11","slug":"6-killed-including-2-children-in-fiery-head-on-crash-in-hill-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346480\/","title":{"rendered":"6 killed, including 2 children, in fiery head-on crash in Hill County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILL COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Six people, including two children, were killed Saturday afternoon when a car attempting to pass another vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a van on a rural Hill County highway, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred around 4:33 p.m. on State Highway 171 near FM 3155, between Bynum and Malone.<\/p>\n<p>A Nissan traveling northbound on SH 171 attempted to pass another vehicle and collided head-on with an approaching Ford van, according to TxDPS. Both vehicles became fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-struck-by-train-in-northwest-austin-expected-to-survive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Pedestrian struck by train in northwest Austin, expected to survive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four people in the van, two adults and two children, were killed. A fifth occupant, a child, was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Both occupants of the Nissan also died, bringing the total number of deaths to six.<\/p>\n<p>Next of kin had not been notified and no names were released.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies responded to the scene, including the Hill County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Texas Highway Patrol, Bynum Fire Department, Hillsboro Fire\/Rescue, Penelope Fire Department, Careflite EMS and the Texas Department of Transportation. The highway was closed in all directions south of Bynum before reopening later Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILL COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Six people, including two children, were killed Saturday afternoon when a car attempting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-346480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}