FORT WORTH, Texas (WFAA) – Five people were killed in a wrong-way crash in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday.

Police say a family of four was inside a car traveling the wrong way on the highway when it crashed into a pickup truck.

The asphalt on the loop near Marine Creek Reservoir is still charred.

Eyewitnesses said that even at 03.30 in the morning they could see the smoke from kilometers away.

“I saw the car, which was no longer on fire and unrecognizable. “He was so burned,” an eyewitness said.

Fort Worth police said a family of four, including two parents and two children, was inside the small car traveling the wrong way on Northwest Loop 820.

All four died when they crashed into a pickup truck and their car caught fire.

The driver of the truck survived, but police said the passenger, his fiancee, did not.

“This is a man who lost the love of his life,” said Officer Tracy Carter, a Fort Worth police spokeswoman. “For the survival of six and one, ask yourself, ‘Why me?’ “You should ask.”

Police don’t yet know why the car was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of the loop, Carter said.

“When there is a head-on collision, you have double the forces involved,” said Kyle Clay of the Fort Worth Fire Department.

Clay called the crash “horrible.”

“Every once in a while you will come across a specific call. You may pick up two or three in your career that really stick with you. I think this is one of them,” Clay added.

The medical examiner has not yet publicly identified the victims; The fire may last longer because it burns everything.

“I watch all these first responders go grab the crowbar, grab the defibrillators, and come back with this look on their face like they knew it was too late,” the accident witness said.

This section of the highway was closed for approximately six hours on Sunday.

The family of the woman who died in the truck says she got engaged to her fiancee earlier this month.

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