Five people were killed and one was seriously injured in a serious accident in Fannin County

Five people were killed and another was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash in Fannin County this week.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said the accident occurred just before 6 p.m. on Monday, October 14, near Randolph Township, between McKinney and Bonham. A 2022 Mercedes Benz AMG GT was traveling south on State Highway 121 when it attempted to pass in a no-passing zone. The Mercedes-Benz collided head-on with a northbound 2016 Hyundai Tucson, and both vehicles caught fire.

According to CBS affiliate KXII, the vehicles burned for hours after the initial accident.

According to DPS, there were four people in the Mercedes Benz and three of them were pronounced dead at the scene:

• The driver, Chiranjeevi Sivaa Rajaneni, 30, of Coppell.
• Gopi Thirumuru, 30
• Haritha Reddy Degapui, 27

A fourth person in the Mercedes-Benz was flown to Medical City Plano with life-threatening injuries.

Both people in Huyndai were killed:

• Danielha Rodriguez of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. DPS did not provide her age.
• Maria del Carmen Santiz-Lopez, 64

A GoFundMe campaign purporting to raise money for Rodriguez and Santiz-Lopez’s funerals said they were grandmother and granddaughter and that Rodreguez had an 11-month-old girl.

DPS said the investigation is ongoing.