Freight train hits SUV in Plant City, Florida killing six, one critical

 Monday, September 25, 2023

Neighborhood media detailed Sunday something like six individuals lost their lives and harmed one after a SUV was hit by a cargo train in Plant City, Florida while it was endeavoring to cross the railroad in Hillsborough Province, nearby authorities noted.

Hillsborough Area Sheriff's Office expressed: "Four guys and three females were inside the SUV."

Neighborhood media revealed that the family was going to a quinceañera at the hour of the occurrence.

During a news instructions, Sheriff Chad Chronister said: "The SUV, we can see from the video starts to launch and flip fiercely a few times before it handled a separation from this intersection."

Authorities expressed that the accident occurred at around 6:45pm after a Cadillac Escalade was struck at US-92 and Jim Lefler Circle by a train going at 55 mph.

Sheriff Chad Chronister said: "As you can envision, the savagery that is made when these two impact. The SUV, we can see from the video starts to launch and flip brutally a few times before it's landed."

As the crash occurred, the casualties were brutally catapulted.

As indicated by the subtleties, the dead casualties were distinguished as driver Jose G Hernandez, 52; Enedelia Hernandez, 51; Jakub A. Lopez, 17; Alyssa Hernandez, 17; Anaelia Hernandez, 22; and Julian Hernandez, 9.

Authorities noticed that the survivor casualty was at the front, 23-year-old Guillermo E. Gama III. The sheriff's office said he is in basic condition at Lakeland Provincial Wellbeing.

Chronister said the scene was horrendous to see, portraying the family's SUV as a "soda can that was crushed."

"I think any individual who has seen the slaughter that has been made, at whatever point you compound that with kids lost their lives here, perhaps a whole family, perhaps a whole family lost their life here this evening," Chronister said Saturday adding that "all of us are noticeably shaken."

"Nobody on the train endured wounds in the accident," specialists noted.

The intersection was not set apart with crossing arms in any case, just a stop sign was noticeable. Rail security master Michael Callanan said the street was not implied for public traffic.

"This street is a secretly kept up with street, a frontage road to a home," Callanan said while adding that "there's two homes back there I accept."

"It's anything but a public lane street; it's simply a street to get to the house. In this manner it's not expected to have those advance notice gadgets there since it's exclusive."