SACRAMENTO (AP) - A suspected drunken driver arrested after a weekend traffic collision that claimed the lives of six family members returning from a baptism is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.

A report by the California Highway Patrol said 28-year-old Bradley Bledsoe of Linda was driving his sport utility vehicle about 10:25 p.m. Saturday when he rear-ended the family’s SUV, causing it to spin and slam into a eucalyptus tree.

The crash, on Highway 70 south of Marysville, killed Thomas Negrete, 29, of Olivehurst; his wife Maribel Negrete, 29; the couple’s 3-year-old son, Eric; their 7-month-old son, Cesar; and Maribel’s parents, Maria De Raya, 63, and Jose Ray Quintana, 65. The family was returning from a baptism.

Rescue workers were able to pull the father from the mangled vehicle, but he died after arriving at Sutter Roseville Hospital.

After striking the Negretes’ vehicle, Bledsoe’s car hit a van, causing it to spin off the road, according to the CHP. The van’s driver was not injured.

Bledsoe and a passenger fled on foot after the collisions, California Highway Patrol spokesman Jeff Larson said.

He was arrested Sunday in front of his home and is being held without bail in Yuba County on suspicion of homicide, drunken driving, hit-and-run, and driving on a restricted license, Larson said. It was not clear whether the passenger also was being sought.

Several witnesses told officers they saw Bledsoe driving erratically after leaving a Yuba City bar, Larson said.

“We feel we have enough pieces of the puzzle to have a sense of what happened,” he said.

The accident left emergency workers badly shaken.

Bob Criss, assistant fire chief of the Linda Fire Department, responded to the scene Saturday night along with eight other Linda firefighters. He called the situation “traumatic.”

“When we go on any kind of vehicle accident with trauma, it has an effect,” he said. “But when you come upon a vehicle with six people inside, its sickening, to say the least.”

The crash involving the family came hours after another fatal collision in the area, a region north of Sacramento that has seen farm fields converted to subdivisions in recent years.

That crash occurred about 7 p.m. on Highway 99 in Sutter County when a state Office of Emergency Services fire truck returning from a blaze was struck head-on by a vehicle that had crossed the center line.

The driver of the oncoming car, 46-year-old Grant Bennett of Live Oak, was killed, Criss said. The firefighters were not injured.