ROBESON COUNTY, NC : 4 of 5 killed on I-95 were from one family on may, Tuesday 16th 2017

Four of the five people killed in a fiery wreck on Interstate 95 near the South Carolina border Tuesday were members of one family.

Troopers with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said Department of Transportation crews were painting when a tanker carrying fuel did not slow down and caused a chain-reaction crash involving multiple vehicles.

The tanker, driven by Michael Elliott Bricker, 68, of Myrtle Beach, hit a Dodge pick-up truck, pushing it into a Ford Explorer SUV. That Explorer then was pushed into the rear of a Ford Escape SUV.

The tanker continued southbound and hit two other tractor-trailers, igniting the gas in the tanker and sparking a fire.

The driver who caused the crash, Bricker, died, along with four people in the Dodge pick-up. They were: driver Elise Ann Spennati, 32, Cole Allen Spennati, 25, Sianna Spennati, 1, and Aila Spennati, 4, all of Goose Creek, S.C.

Three people from the Ford Explorer suffered serious injuries and were taken to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Javier A. Estrada-Beltran, 46, of Charleston, S.C., the driver of the Ford Explorer, and two of his passengers, Francisco Morales-Gaspar, 35, and Lucia De-La-Cruz, 34, both of Charleston, were all in stable condition Wednesday morning.

The driver of the Ford Escape, Mary Ann Payne, 68, of Kansas City, Mo., was taken to Florence Medical Center in South Carolina with serious injuries and was reported to be in stable condition.

Two others – the drivers of the two other tractor-trailers involved – were checked out by emergency personnel at the scene.


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4 of 5 killed on I-95 were from one family