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Two Edinburg men were killed and six people were transported to a local hospital Sunday evening after two vehicles crashed near a farm road just outside of town, state troopers said in a news release.
Edinburg residents Domingo Rodriguez, 41, and Mateo Guzman Lopez, whose age wasn’t provided, died at the scene of the crash due to their injuries.
Rodriguez was driving a Chevrolet Cobalt carrying Guzman as a passenger when at around 7:20 p.m., according to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the vehicle “failed to yield the right-of-way at a stop sign” while traveling southbound on Kenyon Road near Farm-to-Market Road 2812 east of Edinburg.
That’s when DPS said a Chevrolet Suburban occupied by the driver and five passengers, who were heading eastbound on FM 2812 at the time, crashed into the Cobalt.
The six people in the Suburban were taken to a hospital with “non-life-threatening injuries.”
Rodriguez and Guzman were pronounced dead at the scene.
Troopers are currently investigating the crash.
Their deaths Sunday evening raise the number of road fatalities in the Rio Grande Valley to at least seven — the last four occurring this weekend and all in the Edinburg area — since June 23.
