Nine people were killed and one person was seriously injured after the sport utility vehicle they were traveling in veered off the road and overturned into a South Florida canal on Monday evening, the authorities said.
The crash took place just before 7:30 p.m. in the 5800 block of Hatton Highway, a two-lane road that runs through an agricultural area of Belle Glade, a city of more than 16,000 residents in the western part of Palm Beach County in South Florida, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
The authorities said that 10 people — including five children — were traveling westbound in a 2023 Ford Explorer when it approached a 90-degree curve in the road.
“For undetermined reasons,” the sheriff’s office said in a crash report, the vehicle “failed to properly negotiate the left curve of the roadway.”
Persons:
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Organizations:
Office, Ford
Locations:
South Florida, Hatton, Belle Glade, Palm Beach County, Beach