The love story of a newlywed couple came to a tragic end on Thursday morning when a semi-trailer overturned on a Colorado highway.

The truck, loaded with large plastic pipes, crashed shortly before 8:30 a.m. local time on Interstate 70 in Wheat Ridge, about a 20-minute drive northwest of Denver. The pipes the truck was carrying fell into the eastbound and westbound lanes of I-70 when the truck overturned.

According to Eric Kellogg, chief of police for the Wheat Ridge Police Department, the accident involved at least three other vehicles. Three passengers in one of those vehicles died.

Family members identified the deceased crash victims as Ruben Rodriguez, 33, Juliana Rodriguez Plata, 37, and Plata’s mother, Luz Melba Martinez, local ABC affiliate KMGH-TV reported.

Rodriguez and Plata were married last Saturday, their family told KMGH-TV.

“They set goals early on for their child, maybe more children together, and just lived a normal life and their love story was just beginning,” Janell Rodriguez, Ruben Rodriguez’s sister-in-law, told the outlet.

The couple’s 1-year-old son, Daniel, called Danny, and Plata’s father, Carlos Joaquin Plata, were in the car at the time of the crash and were injured. The driver of the semi-truck was also injured, according to Kellogg.

The couple, their son and Plata’s parents, who had come from Colombia, were on their way to their honeymoon in the mountains when the accident occurred.

“We were just happy. We were just having fun. And then we got the news that they were gone,” Janell Rodriguez said. “And then the baby without both parents, you know? That’s hard. That’s hard on the family. That’s why we’re gathered here now and trying to be strong together.”

According to the family, the couple was driving their car westbound when the accident occurred.

“We just want to know exactly what happened because they were on the other side of the highway. They weren’t even close to the semi-truck,” Rodriguez said.

Newsweek contacted the Jefferson County Coroner via an online form on Friday afternoon and requested comment.

More crashes

Four people were killed and eleven others injured in three separate accidents within about an hour on the Ohio Turnpike on Thursday morning.

The first accident involved a commercial vehicle carrying sulfuric acid and a car. Two people were killed in the accident and three others were taken to hospitals in the Toledo area.

The second accident involved four commercial vehicles and one car. One person was killed and three others were injured.

The third accident involved three commercial vehicles and two cars. One person died in the accident and five others were injured.