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Crash after wedding kills 3
Associated Press
Published August 23, 2005
JACKSONVILLE - Three members of a wedding party were killed and four were injured in a traffic accident Monday as they headed toward Jacksonville International Airport for a flight home to New York City.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the seven were in a Ford Explorer headed north on Interstate 95 about 5 a.m.
The driver, Kechia McFadden, 33, missed the airport exit and apparently cut in front of a truck, which struck the sport utility vehicle from behind.
The Explorer swerved off the road, hit a guardrail, overturned and burst into flames.
Killed were Dwight Dula, 36, Brenda Trip-Johnson, 45, and Salesa Griffin, 32. Highway Patrol Lt. Bill Leeper said Dula and Trip-Johnson were ejected, while Griffin was trapped in the SUV.
McFadden was taken to Shands Jacksonville hospital with injuries that weren't life-threatening. Taron Williams, 18, Ronald Williams, 12, and Calesa Gray, 6, also received nonlife-threatening injuries.
The truck driver, Wallace Nelson, 41, of Jacksonville, was not hurt.
Leeper said the Explorer was part of a three-vehicle caravan headed to the airport after a weekend wedding in Jacksonville.
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