Four dead including 5-year-old girl 'who wasn't in a car seat' after SUV runs off the road and smashes into a tree | The Sun

FOUR people, including a five-year-old girl, are dead after their SUV ran off the road and struck a tree.

The deadly smash unfolded shortly after midnight on Wednesday south of Florida Boys Ranch Road in Lake County, Florida, about 35 miles from Orlando.


The Florida Highway Patrol said that a 24-year-old man was driving a 2008 Dodge Durango when it crashed while going around a curve.

The SUV ran off the road into a grass shoulder, where it collided with a large tree, troopers said.

Officials said no one on board was wearing a seatbelt and the girl was not in a proper child car seat.

Authorities have released the victims' ages, including a five-year-old girl from Clermont, a 48-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman from the Orlando area.

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The names and relationships of the victims were not immediately made available.

State troopers asked motorists to use an alternate route while they investigate the crash.

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