A former beauty queen was killed in a horror collision, that also left two other people injured, when the pickup truck she was in crash into a ravine and burst into flames.
Samanta Villarreal was traveling in a Ford Lobo in the northeast state of Nuevo León, Mexico, when it crashed and overturned on a bridge on Sunday.
The impact of the accident sent the pickup truck careening down a slope, where it burst into flames.
Firefighters and Red Cross paramedics were able to remove all three victims from the vehicle.
Villarreal, mother to a four-year-old girl, did not have vital signs and was pronounced dead on the scene.
Samanta Villarreal, who in 2018 was crowned Tourism Queen for the northeastern Mexican municipality of El Carmen, was killed in a car crash Sunday. Her sister and a friend survived the accident and remain hospitalized
Local Mexican news outlets reported that the vehicle that the late former beauty queen Samanta Villarreal was traveling on was being chased on a road in the northeastern city of Villaldama moments before it crashed on a bridge and overturned before it burst into flames
Her sister and a friend were rushed to Sabinas Hidalgo Hospital, where doctors listed them in serious condition as of Tuesday.
The Nuevo León State Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation into the accident.
Various local news outlets reported that their vehicle was being chased after before it crashed.
Samanta Villarreal was crowned 2018 Tourism Queen pageant for the Nuevo León municipality of El Carmen and participated in the promotion of cultural events during her reign.
She studied public accounting at the Nuevo León Autonomous University and lived in Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo León.
Former Mexican beauty queen Samanta Villarreal was killed in a car crash Sunday. Her sister and a friend survived
Samanta Villarreal was crowned Tourism Queen for El Carmen in 2018
The former Mexican beauty queen leaves behind a four-year-old daughter
The Nuevo León State Attorney General’s Office is leading the investigation into the car accident that left dead former beauty queen Samanta Villareal and injured two people, including her sister
The model’s death stunned her loved ones and the beauty pageant community, including Alberto Roque, who oversees the state’s tourism queen pageant.
‘On behalf of the entire Tourism Queen pageant family and myself, we join in prayer with the sadness that overwhelms the Villarreal Nuñez, Villarreal Soto and Núñez Treviño families for the very regrettable loss of Samanta Núñez who participated with enormous pride representing El Carmen in the Nuevo Leon Tourism Queen state pageant in 2018,’ Roque wrote on Facebook.
‘There is pain for which there are no words,’ he added. We send you a hug from the bottom of our hearts.’
‘I can’t believe it because God had to take you to heaven, if you had a whole life to live,’ Blankys Villarreal wrote. ‘RIP Samantha and may the perpetual light shine upon you. Our deepest condolences to the entire family.’
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