LEONARD, Texas -- A Shreveport family perished Christmas morning in a two-vehicle accident that also injured two men with the Bonham Fire Department. Pronounced dead were Pamela Kay Touart, 59, and her twin sons, Cameron Wayne Boudreau and Kipp Leonard Boudreau, 29 years old.

According to Leonard Police Officer Kim Dillard, the wreck happened at 6:05 a.m., at FM 981 and U.S. Highway 69. Her report stated that the EMS crew had responded to an emergency near FM 981, but it was one not requiring a patient to be taken by ambulance to a hospital. So, Dillard said, the men were headed back to their Leonard station. The ambulance, a 1995 model, was driven by EMT Ronald Van Ryan and also occupied by paramedic Cory King.

Dillard said the ambulance traveled north on FM 981 until it came to the U.S. 69 intersection, where the 2005 Chevrolet Malibu was headed north on the way to Madill, Okla.

"It appears that the EMS ambulance pulled up to the stop sign at U.S.. 69," Dillard explained. "They began to pull out and turn left and the driver failed to see the approaching Chevrolet."

The Chevrolet's front left side hit the ambulance in the passenger side door. Both vehicles traveled to the north side of the road and left the pavement.

The ambulance came to rest in a ditch laying on its right side. Dillard said the Chevrolet came to a rest on the inside of a private fence in the same area.

Bonham Fire Chief Bill Palya said that after the EMS men called in the wreck, another of their ambulances, which was returning from a Dallas run, was only five minutes away and answered the call for help. That ambulance took Van Ryan and King to Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman, where they were treated and later released, Palya said.

The Chevrolet occupants were all pronounced dead at the scene by Fannin County Justice of the Peace Precinct 1, Joe Dale. He had all three's bodies sent to the Dallas Medical Examiners Office.

Dillard said the family has been notified and has been in touch with Leonard police.

First responders also included Trenton firefighters and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers. Palya said that all indications from first responders are that none of the deceased had been wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.

Republished with permission of The Herald Democrat.