40-Year-Old Woman Dies Days After Falling from Golf Cart in Thanksgiving Day Accident

Salado Texas Volunteer Fire Dept

A Texas woman was killed after she fell from a golf cart on Thanksgiving Day and suffered severe head injuries, authorities said.

The Salado Fire Department initially responded to a report of an accident just before 4 p.m. on Thursday, alongside several other agencies, the Salado Texas Volunteer Fire Department said in a statement.

At the scene, authorities found a woman who had suffered traumatic head injuries in a golf cart accident.

She was treated on the scene and flown to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple for “further evaluation and treatment,” the statement said.

The woman — who was identified as 40-year-old Blanca Olivas of Bartlett — died of her injuries three days later, in the hospital on Sunday night, Sgt. Bryan Washko of the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.

Washko said Olivas was one of four passengers on a golf cart that was traveling southbound on Blackberry Road near Salado when the incident occurred.

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Salado Fire Chief Shane Berrier told the Killeen Daily Herald that the cart was being driven by one of Olivas' relatives.