Tuesday, May 31, 2016

4 sisters killed in Brevard County I-95 crash. Child thrown over wall in crash that injured 8, killed 4


By Dawn Brooks - Web - News Editor


TITUSVILLE, Fla. - The Florida Highway Patrol said on Tuesday a fourth person is dead after a crash Monday evening in Brevard County on Interstate 95.

FHP said the four killed in the crash are sisters and were not wearing seatbelts when their mother lost control of her Dodge Durango after a tire blowout.
The driver was identified as 34-year-old Latorya Brown, who was wearing a seat belt and suffered minor injuries in the crash. News 6 partner Florida Today reports Brown has been released from the hospital.
Eleven people were in the Dodge Durango at the time of the crash, FHP said. Officials said eight people were sent to area hospitals, but their conditions were not known.
Troopers said one of the victims at the hospital is a child who was thrown over a 25-foot wall and was found after officers heard the child crying. The child was last listed in stable condition.
Transportation officials later said the sound wall height varies between nearly 18 feet to just over 20 feet. 

"We determined that obviously the child was not on this side of the interstate, and to our surprise, it was actually on the other side of the barrier wall," Steven Montiero, a Florida Highway Patrol representative, said. (The child) was ejected on that side. We located the child, (who) was alive and transported."
The child was last listed in stable condition.
The FHP said of those killed, all are confirmed to be females under the age of 18.
"This is a mass casualty scene," said Montiero said. "We're talking 11 people inside of an SUV. I don't know any SUV that fits 11 people inside of it, and we're going to begin to figure this out."
Drivers were encouraged to use State Road 50 as a detour.
No other details were immediately released.
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