IMMOKALEE, FL – An SUV driver failed to stop at a stop sign and drove through an intersection, striking a big rig, resulting in her death and another’s and injuring the truck driver and a child.
NBC-2 said this deadly collision happened around midnight Wednesday at the SR-29 and Oil Well Road intersection, and the impact led both vehicles to overturn, resulting in an oil spill and the truck and SUV coming to rest in a grassy median.
The SUV’s passenger side door sustained some damage, and one adult passenger, a 26-year-old woman, and the driver, a 52-year-old woman from Orlando, passed away at the scene.
The four-year-old girl, also an SUV passenger, suffered life-threatening wounds, while the tractor-trailer driver sustained minor injuries.
Florida Highway Patrol did not mention any hospital transportation in their report or comment on other events that took place during Wednesday’s crash.
This is a developing story. Additional updates will be provided as more details come to light.
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