(KAIR)--A 22-year-old mother and her three young children were killed Friday night in a two-vehicle wreck in St. Joseph, Missouri.
KQ-2 TV reports said the crash occurred in the 29-hundred block of Pear Street around 11:00.
Police say two cars crashed head-on sending one of the cars off the road, where it landed upside down in a water-filled ditch.
The mother and two of her children were pronounced dead at the scene. A third child was taken to the hospital where they later died.
Family members said the children were ages 4, 2 and 1.
Police said two others suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash.
The wreck remains under investigation.
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