- April 25, 2024
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A rear-end car crash on Interstate 95 in Palm Coast left a 7-year-old boy with critical injuries and an 8-year-old girl with serious injuries the night of April 4, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol. The four other people in the vehicles, all adults, had minor injuries.
The crash involved two SUVs and occurred at about 9:14 p.m. in the northbound lanes near the weight station at mile marker 287.
One of the SUVs was stopped in traffic when the other rear-ended it, and one of the vehicles left the road and caught fire, according to the news release.
The two children in one of the SUVs, driven by a 33-year-old woman, had severe injuries, while the driver and a 31-year-old male passenger in the vehicle had minor injuries.
The 20-year-old woman who was driving the other SUV had minor injuries, as did an 18-year-old woman who was a passenger in that vehicle.
All of the people in the car that caught fire made it out before firefighters arrived, according to the Palm Coast Fire Department.
The 7-year-old boy was airlifted by UF Health's TraumaOne helicopter to a trauma center, according to the Palm Coast Fire Department.
All six people involved in the crash were from Palm Coast, according to the news release.
