A young Texas newlywed couple died in a car crash just minutes after tying the knot, authorities said.

Harly Joe Morgan, 19, and his bride, Rhiannon Boudreaux Morgan, 20, were killed Friday afternoon leaving the wedding ceremony at a courthouse in the town of Orange, which is 96 miles of east of Houston.

The couple left the parking lot and merged onto State Highway 87 when their car was struck by a pickup truck, police said.

The groom’s mother who was driving behind them tried desperately to save the couple to no avail, news station KDFM reported. Both Harley and his bride were pronounced dead at the scene.

“I watched my baby die,” Kennia Morgan told the news station. “I’m still wearing my son’s blood because I was trying my best to rip him and her out of the car.”

She said the pair was high school sweethearts and the “only thing that they wanted was to get married.”

“They haven’t even been married for five minutes,” Kennia told the news station.

Police said the truck driver wasn’t injured in the fatal incident. The vehicle had been towing a trailer with a tractor when it collided with the couple’s car.

The crash is under investigation, authorities said.

With Post Wires