A teen driver and her unborn child were killed in an accident near Dallas, and police say an off-duty firefighter was drunk when he crashed.
The wreck took place at 12:45 a.m. early Wednesday around the 200 block of southbound Highway 67.
The firefighter was driving a Mercedes “at a high rate of speed” when it hit a Mazda SUV, ejecting two people inside the SUV, the Fox affiliate reported, citing police. The male passenger was seriously hurt and taken to a hospital.
The pregnant woman, Alyssa Pimentel, 18, and her unborn child died in the crash, officials said.
Pimentel had posted on Facebook that she “can’t wait till January,” which was the due date for the birth. “Just me and you baby boy,” she wrote along with images of the ultrasound.
Police said that alcohol and speed were factors in the crash.
Pimentel’s father told the station that she planned to name her son Josiah. She was a “sweetheart, a kind, caring person who would have done anything for anyone,” he added.
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