The victims were on their way back home after spending a week sightseeing and studying at Jackson Hole Bible College in Wilson, according to a Facebook post from their shared church.

They were identified in a Facebook post from Faith Bible Fellowship Church, in Sherwood, Arkansas, as Salomon Correa, Magdalene Franco, Andrea Prime, Suzy Prime and Ava Luplow.

Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were notified of the collision at milepost 219 at 6:58 p.m. Sunday, six minutes after being notified of a driver traveling the wrong way on the interstate.

A Dodge Ram 3500 was headed east on Interstate 80 on the wrong side of the interstate when it collided with a commercial truck and a passenger car, a preliminary report from the Wyoming Highway Patrol office said.

To avoid the collision of the Dodge truck with the passenger car, a driver of a second commercial truck drove into the median. The second commercial truck then exited the median and entered the eastbound travel lanes going the wrong way, where it collided head-on with the Ford F-150 the Arkansas residents were in.

Both vehicles were immediately engulfed in flames.

Two of the five killed were months away from graduating.

Susana “Suzy” Prime and Ava Luplow were seniors at Sylvan Hills High School in central Arkansas, and Salomon Correa, Magdalene Franco and Andrea Prime were recent graduates, according to the school’s district communication office, which did not release specific ages of the victims out of respect for the families.

Lydia VanderVate, who grew up in church with all five of those killed said that they all had “bubbly personalities” and “could get along, always laughing with each other” in an interview with Arkansas NBC affiliate KARK.

Business owners of a bakery near the school, Humble Crumb, told the station they would close for two weeks and mourn the loss of former employees, Franco and Luplow.

Co-owner Ruth Peters stressed the unity of the young people’s faith.

“They wanted attention to be brought to God,” she said.

Some of the other motorists involved in the Sunday night collision were transported to hospitals with critical injuries. The Highway Patrol website listed three other injuries and those noninjured as four.

The driver of the Dodge, Arthur Nelson, 57, of Limestone, Tennessee, who was driving the wrong way, was arrested on suspicion of impairment, Highway Patrol said, and “may receive future charges as the investigation unfolds.”

The deaths bring fatalities on Wyoming’s roadways in 2023 so far to 12.

Two Missouri men died in a different accident Sunday morning along Interstate 80 after their truck drifted off the left side of the road and rolled onto the driver’s side, collapsing the windshield and burying the driver and passenger in snow, trapping Keith R. Koehler II, 39, and Tyler U. Judd, 40, in the cab.

A Highway Patrol report said driver inattention and fatigue were being investigated as possible contributing factors to that accident.