A 9-year-old girl was killed in a Texas car crash just minutes after she posed for a first-day-of-school photo, according to a local report.

Payton Crustner, who was just beginning fourth grade, died in a two-vehicle smash-up on the way to school around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday in Rusk County, local station KTBS 3 reported. Her 16-year-old brother, Kyle, is listed in critical condition.

Miranda Michelle Clark, 32, was driving with Payton, Kyle and a 3-year-old passenger in her car when Marcus Wayne Dukes, 18, steered his pickup into oncoming traffic, the station reported.

Clark tried to avoid the collision, but to no avail. Dukes’ truck spun backward off the roadway while Clark’s car spun clockwise, landing partially off the road in the northbound lane, according to the report.

Payton was ejected from the car and pronounced dead on scene. Dukes, Clark and her two other passengers were rushed to the hospital — where Kyle remains in the ICU, the station reported. The 3-year-old passenger and the two drivers were eventually released.

Payton’s back-to-school photo was taken only 10 minutes before she was killed.

In a Facebook fundraising page launched for Payton’s family, family friend LeAndria Starr said she had initially hoped to raise $10,000 to cover the family’s funeral expenses.

But by Friday morning, donors had already contributed more than $12,000 — so Starr raised the goal to $50,000, in hopes of contributing to Kyle’s recovery.

“I am praying for a complete healing for Kyle and I know that the road to recovery is long and expensive,” she wrote. “With each medication they give him, each bag of IV, every bandage they change his expenses are adding up. I upped the goal, because I know first hand that his hospital bill will be more than we can raise, but by God, we are going to try.”

Family friends are also planning a fishing tournament for medical expenses and other costs, the station reported.