(FOX40.COM) — Two young children and an adult man are dead after a two-vehicle head-on DUI crash in Stockton on Sunday, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP said officers responded to reports of a fatal crash around 9:19 p.m. in the area of Mariposa Road, west of Dobbs Road.

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Authorities said that a Ford was traveling eastbound on Mariposa Road while a Hyundai, occupied by a mother, a father and three children, was traveling westbound on Mariposa Road.

The driver of the Ford crossed into the westbound lane directly into the path of the Hyundai, resulting in a head-on crash, CHP said.

The right front passenger in the Hyundai, the father, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.

All three children were taken to the hospi

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