Inset, from left: Andrea Banuelos-Salazar; her son Manuel Cabral-Banuelos; her husband, Manuel Cabral-Torres, holding their youngest child, Andres Cabral-Banuelos; and their daughter, Maria Cabral-Banuelos (GoFundMe). Background: The Grand County, Colorado, crash site where a Ford F-150 driver struck and killed the family (Google Maps).
A Colorado driver allegedly traveled in the wrong lane for hundreds of feet before his Ford F-150 slammed into a family’s GMC Yukon, killing all five people inside. Witnesses told police the driver appeared to be asleep or unconscious as he approached the SUV.
Samuel Conger, 26, faces five counts of criminally negligent homicide in connection with the August 2025 collision on Highway 9, south of Kremmling. The crash claimed the lives of Manuel Cabral-Torres, 34; Andrea Banuelos-Salazar, 30; and their three children, Maria Cabral-Banuelos, 12, Manuel Cabral-Banuelos, 5, and Andres Cabral-Banuelos, 2.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, Conger crossed into opposing traffic and was traveling as fast as 86 mph before striking the family’s SUV without braking. One witness who saw the truck in the wrong lane told Colorado State Patrol that Conger’s head was lowered and that he looked “asleep or passed out,” the affidavit says. A second motorist reported seeing the pickup drift into his lane and said he had to swerve to avoid a collision.
The first witness later saw the truck in his rearview mirror as it struck the Yukon head-on, according to the affidavit. Investigators said additional witnesses described the same sequence: the Ford F-150 entered the southbound lane and collided directly with the SUV.
Police said Conger was driving a 2024 Ford F-150 when he crossed the center line near milepost 135.9 and hit the family’s maroon 2010 GMC Yukon. The force of the crash sent both vehicles spinning, and each caught fire.
Police were able to remove Mr. Cabral-Torres from the Yukon, the affidavit states. The flames, however, engulfed the vehicle so completely that rescuers could not free the other occupants.
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Bystanders helped Conger escape from his pickup. He was transported by ambulance to Kremmling McElroy Airport before being flown to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood with serious injuries, according to investigators.
Investigators estimated the pickup’s speed using drone footage, the damage to both vehicles, witness statements and a momentum-based reconstruction. Their analysis placed Conger’s speed between 78 and 86 mph in a 65 mph zone. The affidavit says the truck remained in the oncoming lane for “hundreds of feet,” and investigators found no physical evidence or witness testimony showing that Conger braked or made an effort to avoid the Yukon.
The affidavit characterizes Conger’s conduct as “a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise.”
Authorities also tried to inspect the electronic data recorders in both vehicles. Those systems can preserve information about a vehicle’s operation immediately before a crash, but the intense fire damage prevented investigators from completing the examinations or recovering usable information. Although suspected recorders were found in both vehicles, each had been severely damaged.
Conger has been charged with five counts of criminally negligent homicide, one for each family member who died.
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