At infamous “ghost tracks” in Texas, family members convened for a vigil. And then something terrible happened.

At San Antonio’s infamous “ghost tracks,” three family members were hit by a car while holding a vigil for a loved one, sending them to the hospital. Just after midnight on Sunday, the family had gathered at the intersection of Shane Road and Villamain Road to honour a relative who had died in an accident there. A suspected drunk driver then crashed into the group, hurting a lady and her two children, ages nine and eleven. The San Antonio Ghost Tracks are the namesake of the crash site, which is already well-known due to an urban legend that the spirits of children who perished in a school bus accident in the 20th century haunt there.

According to San Antonio Police, the incident on Sunday started when Jessica Rose Llanas, 34, was travelling down Villamain Road when she failed to make the turn onto Shane Road as planned. According to the police, the car struck the adult woman after running over the feet of the two children. News4SanAntonio stated that the woman suffered head injuries, but none of the victims’ wounds were considered life-threatening. Llanas remained at the site and assisted the detectives, according to the police. She was taken into custody and accused of operating a vehicle while inebriated. Urban legend holds that early in the 20th century, a school bus became trapped on the railway tracks and was struck by a train. According to FoxSanAntonio, the bus driver and all 23 of the kids on board perished. Since then, the history has been refuted; in the early 2000s, an archivist discovered that the crash actually occurred inThe city of Salt Lake, not San Antonio. Nonetheless, the mythology endures, and both residents and visitors frequent the tracks nowadays. In an attempt to get the ghost children to leave small handprints, visitors have also been known to spray baby powder on their cars. The ghostly children are also said to transfer cars along the tracks to safety. Even though the urban myth has been disproved, the location is still a potential accident hotspot. For more information, The Independent got in touch with San Antonio Police.