Nine including seven children dead after two-car crash in California

A horrifying crash on a rural California highway has left nine people, including seven children, dead, according to the officials.

The head-on collision took place around 8 p.m. on New Year’s Day on Highway 33, about 90 minutes north of Bakersfield when the driver of a 2013 Dodge apparently veered off the road, Officer Rory Marks said.

The motorist, a 28-year-old man, then overcorrected — and ended up striking into a northbound Ford which was carrying seven kids and one adult, authorities said.

The impact set the Ford ablaze. All the victims were declared dead at the scene and had yet to be identified as of Saturday.

“We don’t have any witnesses to it, other than the people who came upon it,” Marks told the paper. “We are looking for help if anybody knows anything.” 

The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.