Five Dead in Leon County Wreck
10:34 PM Jan 6, 2006
Steve Fullhart


DPS says all five people involved in a head-on collision in Leon County died.

At 1:12pm Friday, 72-year-old Betty Langford was travelling southbound on Highway 79 a few miles north of Buffalo. She was attempting to pass another car when she slammed head-on into a car with four college students in the northbound lane.

Four of the five victims died at the scene. One of the students was transferred to a hospital, where they died an hour-and-a-half later. Authorities say two of the four students were not wearing their seatbelts.

All the students were from Asia, between 20 and 22 years of age, and apparently were living together in Houston. One was a UT-Tyler student. The other three were taking classes at San Jacinto.

The students parents were still in their home country, and had not been notified by Friday night.

Area police report

By Tim Woods Tribune-Herald staff writer

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Five people were killed in a head-on car crash in Leon County Friday afternoon.

Betty Langford, 72, of Missouri City, Texas, was driving a 2004 four-door Jaguar south on U.S. Highway 79 about three miles north of Buffalo shortly after 1 p.m. when she attempted to pass another vehicle and hit a 2005 Dodge Stratus carrying four Houston students head-on, said a Department of Public Safety spokesman.

Langford, who was wearing her seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene.

All four in the Stratus were also killed. They were: Amrit Dhital, 21, the driver of the Stratus, Pukar Acharya, 21, Subash Gurung, 20, and Pralad Gurung, 22, the spokesman said.

Dhital and Subash Gurung were wearing their seat belts, while Acharya and Pralad Gurung were not, according to the spokesman. All were pronounced dead at the scene except for Subash Gurung, who was pronounced dead at 2:45 p.m. at Fairfield Regional Hospital in Fairfield, the spokesman said.


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