Inset, left to right: Andrea Banuelos-Salazar, her son Manuel Cabral-Banuelos, her husband Manuel Cabral-Torres holding their youngest son Andres Cabral-Banuelos, and their daughter Maria Cabral-Banuelos (GoFundMe). Background: The area in Grand County, Colo., where a Ford F-150 driver killed Manuel Cabral-Torres, Andrea Banuelos-Salazar and their family (Google Maps).
A Colorado man in a Ford F-150 wiped out an entire family of 5 while driving in the oncoming lane “for hundreds of feet,” according to police. Witnesses say he appeared to be “asleep or passed out” when he barreled into the family’s GMC Yukon.
Samuel Conger, 26, is charged with five counts of criminally negligent homicide for the August 2025 crash on Highway 9, south of Kremmling, that killed Manuel Cabral-Torres, 34; Andrea Banuelos-Salazar, 30; and their children, Maria Cabral-Banuelos, 12, Manuel Cabral-Banuelos, 5, and Andres Cabral-Banuelos, 2.
An arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime alleges Conger veered into oncoming traffic and was going up to 86 mph when he struck the family’s SUV without attempting to brake. A motorist who saw Conger in the opposite lane told Colorado State Patrol that his “head was down, appearing asleep or passed out,” according to the affidavit. Another witness said he was driving south when he saw Conger’s truck drifting into his lane, forcing him to swerve to avoid being struck.
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“[The driver] observed through his rearview mirror [Conger’s] truck … collide head-on with [the family’s] SUV,” the affidavit says. “Other witnesses … stated observing similar accounts of the Ford F150 driving into the southbound lane, hitting the SUV head-on.”
Conger was traveling in a 2024 Ford F-150 when he crossed into the southbound lane near milepost 135.9 and slammed head-on into the family’s maroon 2010 GMC Yukon, according to police. Both vehicles spun around the impact site and caught fire.
“Mr. Cabral-Torres was extricated from the vehicle by [police],” the affidavit says. “All other passengers in the Yukon were unable to be extricated due to the fire fully engulfing the vehicle.”
Conger, meanwhile, climbed out of his pickup with help from bystanders. He was taken by ambulance to Kremmling McElroy Airport and flown to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood with serious injuries, according to the affidavit.
Investigators later used drone images, vehicle damage, witness accounts and a momentum reconstruction to estimate Conger’s speed at the time of impact. The analysis placed Conger’s truck between 78 and 86 mph in a posted 65 mph zone. The affidavit states that Conger drove into the oncoming lane for “hundreds of feet.” Investigators found no evidence at the scene and no witness accounts indicating he attempted to brake or take evasive action to avoid the Yukon.
Those actions, the affidavit states, represented “a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise.”
Investigators attempted to examine the vehicles’ electronic data recorders, which can capture information about a vehicle’s operation before a crash. But the fire damage was too extensive to complete the inspections or retrieve usable data. Investigators located what they believed were the recorders from both vehicles, but they, too, were badly damaged.
Conger is charged with five counts of criminally negligent homicide, one for each member of the family killed.
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