A pair of triple-fatality crashes occur in Tampa Bay area
February 6, 2012
Roads in the Tampa Bay area turned deadly Sunday morning when six people were killed in two separate accidents, reports the Tampa Bay Times.
None of the six people who died in the two crashes was wearing a seat belt, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
In southern Hillsborough on U.S. 41 south, three fathers of young children, one 27-years-old and two 29-years-old, died after the 2001 Ford Expedition that they were in overturned and ejected them at about 3:10 a.m.
For some reason, the SUV went off into the grassy median and overturned.
All three men were thrown from the Ford onto the southbound lanes and shoulder of the highway, the patrol said. They died at the scene.
Less than eight hours later in Pasco County, a 2000 Toyota driven by a 22-year-old man of Wesley Chapel, heading west on SR 54, failed to stop for traffic, and collided with the rear of a 2008 Volkswagen, sending that car onto the shoulder. The Toyota driver continued traveling, veering into oncoming, eastbound traffic–where it smashed into a 2002 Toyota.
Three people in the eastbound 2002 Toyota, a 90-year-old woman of Zephyrhills and a 78-year-old man and his 77-year-old wife of Holland Patent, N.Y., died at the scene.
The crashes remain under investigation.
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