Six children were among the nine people killed after a driver in an SUV failed to negotiate a left curve and crashed through a guardrail into a canal in Palm Beach County, Florida. WPTV’s Matt Sczesny reports.
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#WPTV #Florida #crash
RIP to the family.
May God be with the medical personnel because that’s a lot of deaths in one day. Hopefully everyone did go to the same hospital.
Woman driver says it all! Lol
Actuaries say males are more likely to cause crashes. That’s why insurance rates for males are higher.
@@Robin-xt7yo But how many of those males crash because at that moment they have a woman distracting them by nagging?
@goldenhawk352 really? This debate? Grow up. Men are not an exception. Both men and women have the same capability to operate a vehicle responsibly. Gender has nothing to do with it. I personally suspect this was a murder suicide though
@@Radiogirl1931 I noticed myself that men and women have the same capability to operate motor vehicles. The fact that there are so many women in Formula 1 racing convinced me.
” You have reached your destination”, said Google
That’s not even remotely funny!
Bet she was driving way too fast. Very sad
The haunting begins
Are people children? Did we really need someone to tell us that sharp turns on roads are dangerous. Why arent they talking about HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO HAVE 9 PEOPLE IN A SINGLE CAR !!!!
Alot of people travel in groups as families or commuting in car pool vans…its not dangerous …unless you have an accident and that’s not really common
@@terryowen6759sorry, but ages ranging from 23 months to 14 years old. They should not have had that many people in a Ford Explorer since there aren’t enough seatbelts. You are right though that people do it but don’t have accidents like this. But I won’t risk that with my kids ever!
Some dads hate traveling in multiple vehicles. The wife and kids were probably super anxious lol
@@franklinburk3314 Absolutely NOT “lol.” 🥵😳
It’s illegal to travel with unrestrained passengers. At least 1/2 of the children should have been in car seats and boosters. For that, they EACH need a seat AND a child restraint. Not to mention an overloaded vehicle is harder to control/maneuver.
Of course it’s dangerous and illegal (because it’s so dangerous). 🤯🤯
Speed? condolences to their loved ones.
What kind of an SUV can legally hold 10 people?
Most three rows SUVs can accommodate 10 people illegally as long as there are only four adults total and the kids are preteens or younger and not overweight. Same can be said about mini vans.
Kids 45 pounds and under are supposed to be in car seats. So it’s doubtful they were all appropriately in the car..however if they flip upside down it’s surprising all 10 didn’t drown on the scene. More details as to who was found where and injuries and weights and ages would be nice follow up. But the news never follows up anymore.. also who was the survivor? They didn’t mention that at all. And that would be easily obtained by them. Driver or passenger. Child or adult?
A 2023 Ford Explorer
That’s what I was thinking
I believe a GMC Suburban can hold 7-8 passengers
We have those canals in our farmlands and are a hazard for children especially.
Oh god
10 people in one vehicle!?
No seatbelts or car seats 🤦♀️
It was illegals so what we have to many
who let the woman drive? dumb
“turn right at the bend” … Or not
Condolences from Canada that’s terrible😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
A shocking loss of life. And nothing omnipresent, omnibenevolent, omniscient or omnipotent on hand to at least save the kids. Sigh! 🌹 🕯🥀 💐💔 🦋 🕊.
“Failed to negotiate the left turn” = driving too fast to make the turn.
Bingo
sounds like semantics for actually trying to say the driver was wasted
@@grahamcracker659 double bingo
Look for the usual calls the road was at fault.
@@grahamcracker659just assuming
Why don’t we see any warning signs about the upcoming 90 degree turn! Shame on the state or county or whoever would have been responsible! Signs need to immediately be installed well in advance. This is an accident that most likely did not need to happen! Praying for the families of all those involved. Just horrible!
0.11 in the video big flashing yellow sign, some people just shouldn’t drive.
There’s already a flashing sign with a left turn arrow installed there. Speed limit is 20 mph at the corner. If you go to google maps and search for Hatton Highway you can follow the highway and see exactly what’s there.
😂, obviously you don’t pay attention. I hope you don’t live in my state.
Sue the government for those weak rail guards
Sue the government for allowing illegal immigrants
No signs, no reflectors. The government should be indicted.
How many cars have gotten into this canal through that curve? Was it a suicide mission?
*Immigrating Status* of vehicle occupants?
Is that all you care for when 9 people, and especially children, have died in a road accident? Shame on you!
News said they were from Texas. 0:37
@@christinerisden5799 they were on their way back to Connecticut from Florida my friend unfortunately didn’t make it home @MajorCaliber shame on you
America can send billions of tax dollars to endless wars in Ukraine and Israel but can’t put up a proper guard rail to save lives on our roads and our delapidated infrastructure!
Or people could be more cautious when in control of a 5,000 lb vehicle & not fit 10 people in 7 seats.
@@curiouser-and-curiouser Lack of judgement from the driver may have had a part in it. Knowingly the gov didn’t reinforce a crucial section but will say it’s because not enough funds to put a concrete barrier instead of some useless metal sling. But they sure have enough to support coups in Venezuela, gen*cides in Gaza and the ki11ing fields in Ukraine.
Thats really sad, Rural roads have alot of twist and turns because of the crops and waterways, you have to drive at safe speeds
Normally there’s a sign warning you of a curve. That’s your hint.
despite driver negligent and possible traffic violation, i smell a lawsuit coming from the family. just sad to hear so many children onboard died *sigh*
Were they illegals?
Se senor.
Why does it matter?
@@companyman6208 , they were killed by a wreckless woman driver who should have been a defensive driver & the tragedy wouldn’t have happened.
@companyman6208 cause if they weren’t here illegally, they would all still be alive ✌️
No first off…second off why tf does it matter you have no respect
In the dark, I bet it is impossible to see. But it is not dark at 7:30pm do the driver should have seen it.
May be or dusk in FL!
@@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions Yea, I forgot about the time zone, I’m in Central and they are in East.
They need to extend the guard rail another 6 feet or so. I saw a wreck just like this one in my area and I noticed the guardrail needed to be longer in able to stop a car from plunging into a canal. I guess the shorter rails are needed to keep a car from rebounding back on the roadway if it hits it. RIP to all the victims. 😥
It looks like there is a farm lane entering the road at that exact spot, so the rail has a gap.
It went THROUGH the guard rail, so “extending” it would have achieved nothing.
😂, obviously you weren’t paying attention.
Road has no light.
That had to have been illegal immigrants 10 people and only one person survived there is no Ford Explorer has seatbelts to Buckle in that many people and I guarantee you loudest single person was buckled in
Only a spawn of Satan could think of something like that. Lives were lost and for most human beings with a beating heart would find it especially painful when children are involved .
@@mas3674 You call it spawn of Satan, others refer to it as pattern recognition.
Negotiate a left turn it was a curve
Maybe some signs warning that a sharp turn is coming up and to slow down would be more helpful than just a guardrail.
Guardrails are POST FAILURE!!!
I’m assuming there were signs. If not, looking at a hefty lawsuit. I’ll bet there were a couple signs, but I’m just guessing.
@@Bretski126 If speeding was a factor in this tragic case, there is no bases for a law suit
@@jennifervickers4835 I get it, however, when does one really need a basis for a law suit, especially in front of a jury, with persuasive arguments?
That turn is so primitive the county should be held liable. A parasite state like that would blame the driver; if she’d lived they’d be happy to lock her up for life. The same blithering idiots who’d have pillioried her are so incompetent that after 9 people died, the reporter drives up to find nobody there, and shockingly two days later still no guardrail left at all. It should have easily been repaired, and even strengthened with an extra rail below the first etc. and made better the same day, if only just out of respect for those who died. It was unbelievable to see the old rail still hanging down like discarded trash, a nice place to visit to get a thrill from the drop, bent rail and grave to grin at.
I lived in four countries abroad 20+ years, and being back is like the dark ages in some things. Government doesn’t provide people with clean water and power like all advanced countries do, its companies profiting from the most besic neccesities. That county will probably hire the boss’s brother Bubba to fix it when he gets around to it, and meanwhile its more dangerous than ever.
Anywhere else but 2nd World America the railing repair would have only been waiting for the SUV to be towed out on its roof, because they are the deadliest vehicles on the road, with a high center of gravity that will always roll. If you want your family to drown or burn upside down, be sure to drive a pickup truck or an SUV.
That swamp road did not have warning signs for the curve coming in either direction. The county is run by grifters who make sure they get regular raises, but cant put arrows in a turn or a few rows of ruts a few hundred feet back to warn you. They will fix that corner, but every other will be left just like it is until more people die and they fix another one.
TEN people were inside this vehicle, including several children whose safety ZERO attention was being paid, and you believe it is the road’s fault, or something. Go get another booster.
Everybody who drives a vehicle use common sense we don’t need some professional telling us that are you kidding me
Why on earth were 9 people in one car? It’s so sad to hear there were kids in the car crash that died.
Uh, useless illegals?
@@styldsteel1bingo
Maximum seating capacity in a ford explorer is SEVEN. They had ten ppl in that thing! And all but one hv died! So sad.
Also, with SIX kids under the age of 14 in the car, there easily cd hv been distractions.
So one person lived? So sad.
Wow so 😢sad RIP poor souls.
RIP.
Back in the 60s, there were many desolate roads with deep narrow canals on either side in Broward & Palm Beach Counties.
When tragedies happened, it took many hours before another vehicle came along & discovered the carnage.
Then, (no cell phones), that individual would have to travel to civilization to get help.
It sounds like the SUV driver was unfamiliar with the area & may have been traveling too fast in the pitch dark of night.
So are there any surviving relatives that plan on sueing the state for no adequate signage?
It breaks my heart to hear so many children died.😢
Why wasn’t there a warning regarding a sharp left turn??? When are they going to put signs up, barriers???edit: how many more children and adults have to die?
There should have been a stop sign out in the middle of nowhere in pitch black! Obviously….
Still broad daylight at 7:30 pm. Reckless disregard for safety, and likely excessive speed.
So it was a large ethnic family that died. One younger male survived. The police department said that none of the occupants were using seatbelts or car seats. Sounds like reckless endangerment to me. How sad.
Creative way to say they were blck.
@@angelgregiosomeone said Haitian
@@smrk2452 Yep. They were blk. One news channel already placed a family foto.
@angelgregio people kept saying Mexican so I was providing more details that’s all.
@Radiogirl1931 Yeah. We are down there. Not too many, though.
Was this an SUV or a bus?
Ford Explorer is an SUV
Signs.. in Ohio assured clear Distances…oh Timing as well..OSHP..
failure to look ahead at least ONE MILE AHEAD, look BEFORE STEPPING
I hate it when I’m trying to drive someplace and negotiations start breaking down it just sucks… of course who can negotiate when you got eight other people screaming and hollering in the car
It would have been more torture to stay alive after loosing a child, may they all be in heaven 😭❤️ so sorry for their loved ones
So sad,rip poor souls.😢
His insurance rates are going thru the roof
Honestly, he’ll probably stop driving due to PTSD. I had a car accident where no one was injured, and it took me over a month to start driving again. I started biking to work until it was too much to keep up with.
Regardless, Can’t believe they DOT doesn’t have that area.Marked off with a lot more bright signs before you come into that curve…….Because i’ve gone through that area Luckily it has always been in the daytime
10 in a suv ..no mystery to me
A classic tale of the road wanted to turn but the car didnt
Before 7:30? So it wasn’t even dark outside yet… those poor kids had parents that just didn’t care about them
Ten people? Stop putting your children in danger
All right so which one of you clowns out there are going to say that God spared the one person that did not die??
In this world, there are events that occur that are so good and so pure that no bad or evil can come out of it and defile it. But when horrific tragic events happen, even at times what could be described as evil occurs no matter how seemingly bad it may be, good can and does always find a way out of it. Good will always triumph over evil but evil holds no such eternal power over good. God will always provide an opportunity for good even in the face of pure evil because no matter what happens or what it appears as God is good.
God upsets you that much huh?
@@Wolverine_1458The thought of millions of people for thousands of years wasting effort and killing over a book club is upsetting. Humanity has suffered enough from ignorance it’s about time to take that megachurch money and do something useful.. I mean they’ve been donating since 01 A D. Haven’t seen a return on investment yet…
@jayvincent1865 atheists just love seeking an argument 🤷♂️ have a blessful rest of your day Jason ❤️ God bless
@@Wolverine_1458 I’m not an anything… The denial of all of the suffering religion causes is disgusting. Appreciate your response though. Just trying to show people the math.. Can’t argue about the Crusades… Or every other despicable faith based conquest.. Clock has been ticking for a while.. How much more time do you think you can waste?
You never know what will happen in this life! 🙏🏽
I bet MONEY that those guardrails were not installed correctly! The city/state should be held accountable for hiring prison inmates with no education, to build life saving structures around our state.
Was it a prank to see how many they could shoehorn into an Explorer?
No big deal. It’s not like the Explorer has a history of rolling over and killing people or anything.
It’s a 7 seater. You gotta go back 2 decades for that claim. Plain as day – driver recklessness.
What suv holds 10 people?
Shouldn’t there be warning signs and explicite speed limts there? And I’m surprised they call that a highway. It looks more like a farm road. If that was a road in, let’s say, Britain, France, or Germany, there would be signs warning of the bend a quarter mile ahead, then two or three signs giving speed limits from 40 mph down to 20 mph. Not that it would prevent speeding or reckless driving, but the bend would not come as surprising as it did here, and that would lower the probability of an accident like that significantly.
There are reasons why the traffic death rate in the states is 3 to 4 times as high as in western Europe. But all this would cost money, and Florida is probably not a state where the administration cares much for lives on the road. They are already fully occupied with making lives harder for pregnant women, black voters, and, of course, for students who want to learn about the actual history of the country…
What is the maximum occupancy of a 2023 Ford Explorer? Ten people? Really?
The sole survivor’s story about steering issues, well, overweight vehicle and speeding have caused control issues for other vehicles.
Sadly high speed and not knowing where you’re going 😢😢😢
Since the early 80s migrants have been habitually driving into canals with cars over stuffed
Since the 1500s immigrants have been stealing resources and killing natives…
Florida man drives it into alligator infested ditch
Illegal aliens from Haiti*
Florida is Darwins proving grounds
Sancho
Man, obviously driver is at fault but it’s incredibly sad so many children lost their lives due to the negligence. Feel bad for the survivor, that trauma will never go away…
That’s if the survivor survives there injuries because he has serious injuries
She had a responsibility to keep everyone in that vehicle safe, driving along those kind of floridian roads at night is already a risk! There were 10 people on board!!!
I understand they weren’t wearing seat belts
So sad for the children. The van was overloaded and nobody had a seatbelt. Don’t blame it on the road.
Illegal behavior generates consequences.
Unless you’re wealthy…. Or didn’t you get the memo…
Women drivers 🤦♂️
What does a woman driving have anything to do with the loss of life in a tragic accident would you have said anything different if it was a man?….totally insensitive 🙄 that woman DIED have some decency and respect
Sending my prayers and condolences to this family, their loved ones and friends.
DeSantis’ fault.
10 PEOPLE IN A FORD EXPLORER?!?!?!?
needed some reflectors on that corner if that accident happened at night. tragic
We have warning signs with flashing lights on many turns to warn drivers. Why aren’t they required on all dangerous turns?
Did I miss if they were wearing seat belts? Because it sounds like most were not.
Seatbelts aren’t going to save you from drowning.
More questions than answers. A very sad outcome. Life is delicate.
She planned it or fell a sleep.
Twice the amount of passengers that the vehicle was built to carry. No one wearing seatbelts! Shear negligence! Not a situation of road safety. Take responsibility for your ignorance! Stop twisting the truth to suit your narrative!
So sad 😢
NOT Monday NIGHT, you LIAR!!! Monday DAYTIME!!!!
“The ROAD COMMUNICATES…”. What CROCK of SH1T!!!!
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Please stop. Someone was driving that should have never been driving, that car does not seat 10 and not a single person in the SUV could swim?
Remember when parents protected their kids? Doesn’t seem like that happens anymore these days
🙏🏻
Country highways have minimal infrastructure…you really have to drive extremely carefully. Especially in a giant vehicle that can’t stop for nothing and is too heavy for old guard rails.
SUCH MIS-INFORMATION. NO MENTION OF EXCESS OCCUPANCY IN THE VEH. OR SEATBELT USAGE, OR SPEED OR SIGNAGE OF THE TURN…..only some rural road “expert”.
Why don’t they have the cable barriers installed? They’re designed to stop the vehicle from going past that spot but gives so it’s not like hitting a wall.
They killed those poor babies. Shame on the adults. No safety restraints? 😢
It only takes 1 second for an accident to occur, stay vigilant 🙏🏾 my condolences
What causes it isn’t the turn but a lack of a sign. It’s a nationwide issue where some roads are safely marked so the drivers feel safer than they should expecting signs that aren’t there. A car would have been saved but the guardrail isn’t designed for a top heavy overfilled van.