Update names two teenage French girls killed in Death Valley

Two teenage French girls are dead and others have been rushed to the hospital after a car crashes in Death Valley, California.

It happened Saturday along the California State Highway 190 near Furnace Creek which is about 100 miles West of Las Vegas. Medics rushed several other French tourists to Las Vegas Hospitals, as four other teenagers have been injured and two seriously. The driver was a 31-year-old woman, who was also seriously injured in the auto crash. A California Highway Patrol spokesperson states that the driver told them that she fell asleep. Word of this tragic auto accident has just been released by authorities. At 10:30 am Saturday, Nassera Soudani says she fell asleep at the wheel of van carrying six teenage passengers from France. They went off the side of the rode and crashed in Death Valley near Furnace Creek California on Highway 190. Leah Baldaccini, 17, and Orane Pozzo Di Borgo, 16, are the teenage French girls who died in this tragic accident. California Highway Patrol is reporting that no one was wearing seatbelts and three of the passengers were ejected when then van crashed. The remaining passengers are in Las Vegas hospitals being treated at this time. Las Vegas has the nearest treatment to handle these kinds of injuries. University Medical Center is the only level one emergency care unit in the region. It is still unconfirmed that any of the passengers are there. But it is routine for medics to send them there in these kinds of emergency’s. Digital Journal will follow this story as more information on the victims and the injured status becomes available.