HATCH, N.M. (AP) - Two men were ejected and killed when a truck crossed the center line on a southwestern New Mexico highway and collided with a tractor-trailer rig.
The New Mexico State Police identified those killed in the Thursday head-on crash on State Road 26 west of Hatch as 30-year-old Gregory Ross of Albuquerque and 23-year-old Marcus Largo of Crownpoint.
According to the State Police, Ross was the truck’s driver and Largo a passenger and that neither was wearing a seat belt.
Another passenger in the truck and the big rig’s driver were hospitalized with serious injuries.
The State Police says the crash remains under investigation.
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