Idaho police on Friday launched the names of six Chinese language and Italian vacationers killed when a pickup truck collided with their van in a fiery crash close to Yellowstone Nationwide Park earlier this month.
Idaho State Police stated Jian Shi, 56, of Shanghai and Xiaoming Jiang, 66, of Guilin, China, died from the Might 1 crash together with Ivana Wen, 28, of Milan.
Two of the deceased vacationers have been California residents: Li Nie, 64, and Aifeng Wan, 53, each of Arcadia. The van’s 30-year-old driver Yu Zhang, of Eastvale, California, was additionally killed.
There have been 14 folks within the van.
Of the 13 passengers, 12 had Chinese language nationality and one was Italian, police stated. Survivors have been taken to close by hospitals with accidents.
The truck’s driver additionally died. Authorities earlier recognized him as Isaiah Moreno of Humble, Texas.
Investigators decided the Dodge Ram pushed by Moreno crossed the middle line and collided with the Mercedes van pushed by Zhang.
Police stated they have been persevering with to research why the truck crossed the middle line.
The freeway the place the crash occurred south of West Yellowstone, Montana, provides a strategy to get between Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons within the spring earlier than a north-south route is plowed and the park totally opens for summer season.
Yellowstone is without doubt one of the largest nationwide parks within the US and attracts tens of millions of tourists every year.
It’s house to the enduring geyser Outdated Devoted and has wolves, bison and greater than 50 different mammal species. It’s primarily situated in Wyoming but it surely additionally extends in components of Montana and Idaho.
Seventeen % of Yellowstone’s guests got here from different nations in 2016, in response to a park customer use research with the latest complete knowledge out there.
Of worldwide guests, 34% got here from China and 11% from Italy.
