Pregnant woman hits ALLIGATOR on Texas highway killing her and her unborn child when their car rolled over also injuring an adult and three children, aged 13, 11 and six

A pregnant Louisiana woman has been killed and her family left injured after the pickup truck she was driving hit a 12-foot alligator and flipped over multiple times in rural Texas.

Gabrielle Breaux, 33, was returning from Texas to her home in New Iberia, 20 miles south of Lafayette, when the accident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The car wash clerk was seven months pregnant, and accompanied by her father Gregory Gerard, 58, and her three children aged 13, 11 and six.

Breaux was driving a Chevy Silverado pickup truck just before 4am, 60 miles north of Corpus Christi near the small village of Tivoli, when her pickup hit the alligator in the road.

Gabrielle Breaux, a 33-year-old car wash clerk and a mother of three, was seven months pregnant when she was killed on Sunday

Breaux is pictured with her three children, who all survived the crash

Breaux’s Chevy Silverado hit and alligator and spun off the road, flipping over

The animal is seen lying in the road in a photo taken by Refugio County sheriffs

The 12-foot alligator, with a baseball cap for scale, was killed when it was hit by the truck

Sgt. Rob Mallory of Texas Department of Public Safety said they ‘struck an alligator that was crossing the roadway’.

The animal was killed, and the truck spun off the road and rolled over, ending upside down.

All five people inside the pickup were taken to hospital.

Breaux was taken to DeTar Hospital in Victoria, 40 miles from the crash scene, where she succumbed to her injuries and died.

Hospital staff tried to save her unborn child, but were unable to do so.

Emergency services are seen on the scene of the accident in rural Texas in the early hours of Sunday

Five people were in the vehicle, with Breaux at the wheel. The other four passengers – her father and her three children – are expected to survive

Rena Hebert, Breaux’s mother, confirmed the sad news and promised to take care of the three children.

‘My daughter Gabrielle Breaux was headed back from Texas with her dad and her 3 kids and hit a huge alligator in the road causing the truck to flip multiple times,’ she wrote on Facebook.

‘My beautiful Gabbi and her baby didn’t make it.

‘Her other children sustained non life threatening injuries but has severe cuts and stitches and swelling.’

She added: ‘R I P my beautiful Gabbi.

‘Mom loves you and I will take good care of your babies and my grandchildren.’

Jared Lewis, a game warden in Victoria County, told Victoria Advocate that alligator sightings on roadways may happen because the alligator is looking for a body of water.

Lewis, who has experience catching and relocating alligators found on roadways, said the county game warden or sheriff’s office should be contacted when an alligator is found.