Plant Metropolis Florida prepare crash: Six individuals together with dad and mom, their three children and a good friend are useless after prepare slammed into their SUV as they have been headed into quinceanera – ‘violently ejecting’ the occupants

Six individuals are useless, together with three youngsters, after a prepare crashed into their SUV over the weekend.

The incident occurred Saturday at a non-public railroad crossing roughly 20 miles west of Tampa, and left 5 of the Escalade’s passengers useless on the scene.

The driving force concerned, 52-year-old Jose Guadalupe Hernandez, initially survived however succumbed to his accidents in a single day after being rushed to a neighborhood hospital, cops mentioned.

5 within the again together with Hernandez’s spouse and three youngsters – aged 9, 17, and 22 – have been ejected from the car upon affect, cops revealed Sunday, as they proceed to probe what led to the crash.

What is understood is the entire victims, other than Hernandez, have been rear passengers – with the opposite a 17-year-old good friend of one of many deceased. As for the survivor,  a boyfriend of Hernandez’s grownup baby, he’s in essential situation at a Lakeland hospital.

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Six individuals are useless, together with three youngsters, after a prepare crashed into their SUV Saturday night – at this non-public railroad crossing in Plant Metropolis, Florida. 5 within the backseat died on the scene after being ejected from the car, whereas the  driver, aged 52, died in a single day

Sole survivor Guillermo Gama, a boyfriend of 1 the victims, is presently ‘preventing for all times’ after being rushed to a Lakewood hospital sh. Relations on Sunday remarked how the incident ‘stole the lives of a complete household’, who had been heading to a celebration on the time of the crash

There, relations say he’s ‘preventing for his life’.

‘On Saturday 9/23/23 my nephew Guillermo E. (Gordo/Doorbell) Gama III was concerned in a deadly prepare wreck that stole the lives of a complete household,’ a GoFundMe began by the 23-year-old Plant Metropolis man’s aunt Sunday reads.

‘The deceased victims have been [Gama’s] girlfriend, dad and mom, 2 siblings and a good friend of one of many siblings.’

The submit – which inside two hours amassed practically $3,000 – went on to state how ‘Gama is barely 23 years outdated with a ardour for all times and household. 

‘He’s presently in Crucial Situation at Lakeland Regional Hospital preventing for his life.’

In an announcement just some hours earlier, officers from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace gave an replace on the situation of the opposite survivor in Hernandez, who they mentioned had been driving the group to a quinceañera set simply throughout the tracks.

The replace, aired greater than 12 hours after the crash, additional revealed the opposite victims’ identities and ages – lives that have been all snuffed out simply earlier than 7pm Saturday when the automotive slowly crossed the tracks off Freeway 92 on Jim Lefler Circle.

It learn as follows: ‘The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace is heartbroken to share the most recent replace concerning the deadly prepare versus car crash investigation.

‘The driving force concerned within the crash succumbed to his accidents and handed away in a single day.’