TROY — A National Guard Humvee went airborne on a Central Texas interstate Wednesday and vaulted into an oncoming lane, triggering a six-vehicle crash that killed a soldier and two other drivers, authorities said.
Col. Bill Meehan, a Texas National Guard spokesman, declined to say where the soldier who was driving the Humvee was stationed or where he was going when he crashed.
The drivers of an 18-wheeler and a car were also killed, authorities said.
Identities were not immediately released because the families had not been notified.
"Our thoughts and prayers do go out with the soldier’s family and those of the other people involved in the accident," Meehan said.
The Humvee was traveling south on Interstate 35 in the small town of Troy about 11 a.m. when it went airborne, cleared the center barrier and slammed into the oncoming car and 18-wheeler, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The tractor-trailer then crashed into a truck towing a trailer, then into a garbage truck.
It was not immediately clear what caused the Humvee to go airborne, authorities said. The crash closed the interstate in both directions for about three hours. Troy is just north of Temple.
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