Country singer Kylie Rae Harris, died on Wednesday in a three-car crash in New Mexico

Country music singer Kylie Rae Harris has died in a multi-car crash in New Mexico, which also claimed the life of a 16-year-old girl.
The 30-year-old musician who is from Texas was traveling to a music festival in Taos where she was billed to perform, when she got into the crash on Wednesday at around 9pm.


Police say ‘alcohol was a factor’ in the crash, but they have not indicated which driver they suspect had been drinking.
Harris was driving one of three cars involved in the pileup. The 16-year-old victim was driving the second vehicle, while a third vehicle was been driven by a third driver who survived unharmed.

The 16-year-old victim in the  crash has been identified on social media as Maria Cruz, the daughter of a San Cristobal Firefighter and EMT. The other driver is yet to be identified.
Hours beforehand, Harris tweeted that she was running out of gas.
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16-year-old Maria Cruz [photo], high school student and the daughter of a San Cristobal Firefighter and EMT, was also killed in the crash

The 30-year-old musician, a Texas native, was due to perform at a festival in Taos, New Mexico on Thursday

Court records show the singer was convicted in June 2017 of driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of more than 0.15, almost double the legal limit of 0.08.
She was fined $460.10 for the offense, and the judge ordered an Ignition Interlock Device be attached to her car that required her to take a breathalyzer test before getting behind the wheel.
In 2014, Harris was also fined $302 for speeding after she was caught driving 81mph in a 60mph zone in Dallas.
When the fatal accident happened on Wednesday night along State Road 522, killing both Harris and Cruz, both were wearing seat belts while driving their respective vehicles, at the time.


16-year-old Maria Elena Cruz was the daughter of San Cristobal Volunteer Fire deputy chief Pedro Cruz who was among those the first responders at the crash site.
The high school student was pronounced dead at the scene.
The third driver escaped uninjured and has not been identified.
Police have not indicated who they suspect was drinking but said they were waiting for toxicology results to come back from the medical investigator, the Tao News reports.
Authorities say Harris was driving south in a black Chevrolet Equinox when she clipped the back of a Chevrolet Avalanche and veered into the northbound lane.
Harris struck Cruz’s white jeep head on.
A fundraising dinner scheduled for Friday that was meant to raise funds for the San Cristobal Community Center will now be a fundraiser for the Cruz family. Additionally, a GoFundMe page has also been set up to help the family with funeral costs.

She shared a haunting final Instagram story describing how many of her relatives had died in the exact area she was driving through.
‘I just got to Taos, I’m playing this festival here.
‘I love this festival, for those of you who don’t know… my grandparents lived here, my uncle still lives here, but literally everybody that was here has passed away except from my uncle and including my dad and I’m going to cry, driving these roads… you would think, I’ve been driving for almost 12 hours, you’d think that’s so exhausting and boring but the last couple of hours just driving through the mountains, remembering my place in the backseat as a little kid when my dad was making these treks here it was the f*****g best,’ she said.
She went on to say that ‘everyone grieves’ differently.