Five Children Bound For Disney World Among Dead In Fiery Crash On I-75
By WESH // January 5, 2019
crash happened at 3:40 p.m. Thursday
ABOVE VIDEO: Five children heading to Disney World in a church van from Louisiana died along with two truck drivers in a fiery crash on Interstate 75 near Gainesville on Thursday, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA (WESH) – Five children heading to Disney World in a church van from Louisiana died along with two truck drivers in a fiery crash on Interstate 75 near Gainesville on Thursday, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
During a news conference on Friday morning officials with the Florida Highway Patrol said the church passenger van carrying the children was from the Avoyelles Parish in Louisiana.
The crash happened at 3:40 p.m. Thursday just north of Gainesville.
Troopers said a tractor trailer and a passenger vehicle traveling north, collided and went through the guardrail into the southbound lanes. They struck the passenger van and another tractor trailer.
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