Two victims were sent to a forensics laboratory for identification after a triple fatality automobile wreck early Monday morning in Wortham.

The wreck occurred about 4:50 a.m. on Hwy. 14 about a mile north of its intersection with FM 27.

Eventually three vehicles were involved.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Travis Alewine reports that a 2006 Honda Ridgeline pickup/suv driven by Sammy McGowan, 42, of Wortham was northbound on FM 14.

A 1996 Ford F-150 pickup with two occupants, identified as Jorge Castaneda, 40, the driver, and passenger Rodolfo Gomez, 41, was southbound on Hwy. 14 and crossed into the northbound lane of traffic, striking the McGowan vehicle head-on, the trooper says.

After the initial wreck, a 1996 Ford Explorer with three occupants struck the pickup truck, disabling the Explorer.

Alewine reports that the pickup caught fire after its collision with the Honda, burning the two occupants.

McGowan and the two occupants of the pickup were pronounced dead at the scene by Peace Justice Debbie Hamilton, precinct two.

Alewine reports that Castaneda and Gomez, both of Mesquite, were on their way to work in Franklin at the time of the wreck.

Hamilton ordered an autopsy to identify the two pickup occupants and determine their causes of death.

The occupants of the Explorer were transported to Parkview Regional Hospital in Mexia for treatment of non life threatening injuries, Alewine reports, and have not yet been identified.