Dodge County, WI : Four people killed and three others injured in single-vehicle crash Interstate 95 on Friday October 23 2015
A "savage," single-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 on Friday afternoon killed four members of a South Carolina family and left three others hospitalized.
According to the N.C. Highway Patrol, a silver Dodge Durango traveling north veered off I-95 near mile marker 47 just after 2:30 p.m. The vehicle traveled about 50 yards through grass, then entered a stand of trees in the median about 200 yards south of the Cape Fear River bridge.
Two adults, a 17-year-old and a 2-year-old were pronounced dead at the scene, the Highway Patrol said. Three other passengers, all children, were transported to a local hospital.
Late Friday, the names had not been released. The condition of the survivors was not known, nor was the reason for the vehicle veering off the road.
A shift supervisor with the Elizabethtown office of the Highway Patrol said he did not have information on where the family was going. WRAL said the vehicle was one of three headed from South Carolina to Goldsboro for a family reunion.
Three hours after the wreck, as a crew labored to remove the Durango from deep within a stand of trees, traffic backed up for miles on the northbound side of I-95. The crush of northbound traffic was squeezed into one lane, the on ramp from N.C. 87, and hundreds of cars flowed single file past the scene as fire crews from Pearces Mill draped the Durango in a bright blue tarp. A black-and-white child carrier laid sideways on the grill of the vehicle as it sat in the woods.
The vehicle came to rest upside down, wedged among the trees. The passenger side and roof were crushed, while the front of the vehicle was barely damaged.
Veteran firefighters said the vehicle impact was "savage.
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Four killed, three survive in Friday crash on I-95