Four people were pronounced dead at the scene following the crash, officials confirmed at the time.
Nine people are dead, including six children, after an SUV was found upside down in a canal in Belle Glade on Monday, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office A tenth person, who was a passenger in the vehicle at the time, remains hospitalized.
According to the report, investigators determined the Ford Explorer was headed west on Hatton Highway around 7:30 p.m. in rural Belle Glade and the driver, who authorities have not identified at this time, failed to take the left-hand curve when the road turned south. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Capt. Tom Reyes said there were children and adults in the Explorer at the time of the crash. He described this wreck as, “one of the most difficult scenes I’ve been on.”
Tragically, six of the nine deceased were minors. The youngest, a baby girl, was about to turn two years old in September. Others include two five-year-old boys, a three-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy, and an eight-year-old boy.
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