Authorities now say a head-on crash that killed five people in central Wyoming last week wasn't an accident but a suicide that resulted in the deaths of 4 others. The crash happened Nov. 10 four miles south of Lander. Fremont County Coroner Ed McAuslan says that 17-year-old Matthew Denton deliberately turned the Chevrolet Suburban he was driving into the other lane. McAuslan says authorities determined the crash was intentional after inspecting a vehicle data recording device in the Suburban and based on other findings from their investigation. The Suburban crashed head-on into a 2005 Dodge Caravan minivan. Denton died at a hospital in Casper shortly after the crash. The wreck also killed four people in the minivan: 41-year-old Corina Surrell; her ex-husband, Arvin Surrell; their 25-year-old son, Ethan; and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Melinda Escamilla. The Surrells lived in Fort Washakie.
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