{"id":109111,"date":"2025-08-01T02:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109111\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:28:15","slug":"burnet-county-crash-that-killed-5-dallas-women-remains-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109111\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnet County crash that killed 5 Dallas women remains under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BURNET COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> – Five Dallas women lost their lives in a multi-vehicle crash in Burnet County.<\/p>\n

Multi-vehicle crash <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

The crash happened on Friday evening around 6 p.m. in Burnet County, just north of Austin.<\/p>\n

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DPS says a Ram truck pulling a livestock trailer crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a Chevy Malibu and a Mercedes SUV traveling behind it.<\/p>\n

All five victims were in the Mercedes SUV as it flipped and caught fire.<\/p>\n

All five women were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

The people in the other vehicles had non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Honoring the victims <\/p>\n

Local perspective:<\/p>\n

Oak Cliff pediatrics posted this photo slideshow of Brianna Valadez. Valadez worked at the clinic off Jefferson Boulevard, being remembered as a bright light with a soft, quiet spirit who welcomed all families.<\/p>\n

Valadez was one of five Dallas women killed over the weekend in a multi-vehicle collision in Central Texas.<\/p>\n

The other victims were identified as Thalia Salinas, Ruby Cruz, Desiree Cervantez, and Jacqueline Velazco.<\/p>\n

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Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe for Ruby Cruz reads, “This sudden and unimaginable loss has left our family completely devastated and many friends in mourning.”<\/p>\n

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Another GoFundMe describes 23-year-old Thalia Salinas as an amazing daughter, sister, niece, granddaughter, coworker and friend. Within the last year, Salinas became a proud aunt and her family say it was her best role yet.<\/p>\n

Her family wrote, “This loss has left a void that can never be filled.”<\/p>\n

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What’s next:<\/p>\n

The crash is still under investigation and no charges have been announced.<\/p>\n

The families say they do want to wait to speak publicly until the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Information in this article was provided by the\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Oak Cliff<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BURNET COUNTY, Texas – Five Dallas women lost their lives in a multi-vehicle crash in Burnet County.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,50,10429,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-109111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-oak-cliff","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951153995125252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}