Woman and two children die in fiery crash on I-270

Three people died in a fiery crash on northbound I-270 Friday. All three victims were in the same vehicle, which included a woman and two young daughters.
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[@Proverbs31_25]

drivers going too fast on HWY! just drove 11 hrs from Texas to Louisiana - people were driving on roads & HWYs & Freeways going 80-100 mph! including 18 wheelers !!! saw several 18 wheelers in fast lane & tail gating drivers !!! beyond out of control speeders on HWYS all over USA - and not paying attention !!

[@patmcbride9853]

Get a dash camera system. It will show police/insurance/Social Media what happened. It's tragic that the female driver apparently failed to maintain her lane.

[@Jleed989]

What if the dashcam is destroyed in a fiery crash?

[@patmcbride9853]

@@Jleed989 Then you are probably not around to care.

[@wbrandon7456]

Sad may peace come to their families Prayers up. 🙏

[@krayzietj]

Sounds like she wasnt paying attention

[@CarsonSenseney_metal_head666]

I know the people who died so show some respect

[@bradleysimpson9819]

​@@CarsonSenseney_metal_head666 Sorry for your loss

[@krayzietj]

@@CarsonSenseney_metal_head666 Im not being disrespectful but you have to drive like your playing defense if you not a defensive driver you not going to survive how dont you see the truck she crashed right into it

[@rickyedwards5480]

​@@CarsonSenseney_metal_head666When have any on line shown respect? How about you stay off line till you are a little less sensitive.🤔❄

[@CarsonSenseney_metal_head666]

@@rickyedwards5480 the people that died are my family's friends.

[@Rfox-]

You got to pay attention

[@Robby3296]

Speed kills

[@charlesbarkely3021]

don't have to be speeding for this to happen. This is final destination stuff.

[@LeJulesHi]

Preventable in multiple ways. Just so damn sad.

[@wayneclark3020]

Pretty bad place to put your truck and check a load.

[@robinlanier6886]

He did what he thought was OK. What if the load was not secure, things could have been a lot worse if all that lumber had fallen. Maybe she was distracted and did not see the truck. Just a horrible horrible accident. 😢

[@charlesbarkely3021]

@@robinlanier6886 bologna, he could've just let off the accelerator and turned is right blinker on to get all the way over

[@smfarrie2943]

@@charlesbarkely3021 where he parked wasn’t a driving lane, so how is he at fault? Zero accountability towards the person who actually caused the accident. That wasn’t a lane. How did she not see a semi sitting in it?

[@charlesbarkely3021]

@@smfarrie2943 I never said he was at fault dude. All I said was I think it was possible for him to get somewhere safer. Your comprehension needs work. Try reading things slower.

[@dennisferguson9129]

​@@charlesbarkely3021Truck was in the median for a reason. Why was car there? Who drives in the median?

[@patrickpowell2236]

I'm the guy driving 65mph in the 65mph zone wasting a whole 25 seconds on my 12-mile drive when I could be driving 75+mph.

[@Jleed989]

And you’re putting up with constant tailgaters who think you should drive faster for their benefit

[@Batman1920.]

that was my friend Natalie😭

[@garyfeltman4482]

Sorry for your loss!

[@Batman1920.]

@@garyfeltman4482 ty 🩷😭

[@cobraracer5729]

Mallory, that space in the middle of the road, separating the lanes, is a median, not a medium…

[@allenkranawetter9482]

Very sad ☹️

[@robinlanier6886]

Maybe the truck driver should have just ignored his instincts that the load was loose. 🙄

[@tammycaskey6990]

Just slow down. Why are we always in in hurry. Nothing new here. This will happen again. The children are with Christ there is good news here. Mother,? Who knows.

[@carolamoore72]

Yes and AMEN! 🙏🙏🙏

[@sherryyoung6110]

So very sad! 😞

[@janinewilkinson4894]

The rear vehicle with 2 deceased occurred because of an internal fire within. The driver believed this was safe as the truck was stationery on a Highway shoulder. SELAH. The occupants would have ALL perished if the driver had continued driving thereby endangering other vehicles and their occupants. OMAIN:NIAMO

[@PaulUnknown-so8yn]

RIP....

[@Jaycee604]

🙏🏿RIP

[@garyfeltman4482]

Why did the truck think it was safe to do that? He is liable for their deaths. The truck had no business pulling in the Gore area to check his load!

[@robinlanier6886]

🙄

[@OIllllO]

@garyfeltman4482 She should not have been driving in the median. It was her fault for not paying attention.

[@dennisferguson9129]

What was truck driver supposed to do? Let lumber spill onto the road and crush cars?

[@relicpathfinder2800]

The Democrats should make more laws restricting assault vehicles.

[@kumquatguardian476]

People died here have some compassion you failed abortion

[@doriangray2020]

Typical maga creep.

[@GDoggy-em2xc]

Dems always have to bring abortion into everything

[@bradleysimpson9819]

​@@kumquatguardian476Wow you went from being kinda righteous to being on the same level, if not slightly worse 😳. You libs are some unstable things 😂

[@patmcbride9853]

@@kumquatguardian476 OK, projectocrat

[@FayTown82]

That stupid truck should have not been in the middle of the damn road like that. And if they often see people cut across two painted lines on the street, the county should have put more barriers in place by now that would deter people from switching lanes like that. That family should sue the county for sure

[@patmcbride9853]

It was in the middle of a "damn" gore point, which is where you are not going to drive if you are paying attention.

[@michaelcowin6442]

Agree. That trucker technically created an unsafe condition, for himself as well as rapidly moving vehicles on both sides.

[@royhe.derson3137]

There's a reason for shoulder's had the driver been paying attention this terrible wreck would have never happened... guaranteed they were speeding

[@jimbeam2705]

NOT THE BRIGHTEST BULB, ARE YOU? He was checking his load which id's the drivers responsibility at all times. Maybe the female driver was looking at her cellphone, either way SHE wasn't paying attention.

[@kennethmatthew3453]

So you're assuming it's better for the trucker to have let an unsecure load fall on another vehicle??? Are you unaware many lives are lost from loads falling off trucks??? If you were in our shoes as truckers you'd understand we can't just "pull over" at any random second during heavy traffic and if you have a dangerous object which may be about to fall onto other vehicles then sometimes there's just no time to pull over before another car is smashed by an object falling off a trailer/flatbed. Sometimes loads "shift" during transport like if a swerve was needed to avoid another vehicle or some unseen bump in the road any load can become unsecure at anytime for any reason. It's wrong for you to get mad at another trucker just because a 4 wheeler got hurt or worse for disobeying traffic laws. If it was a construction vehicle parked in the median instead of a semi then the outcome would've been the same. Honestly if you can't respect the work and sacrifices trucker's make than you shouldn't ever go shopping again. Are you seriously unaware some truckers has perished while trying to deliver some of the products you shop for??? Some of the things you have eaten or some of the clothing you were some trucker's perished after that delivery. Nearly everything you have ever eaten in your life was delivered by a trucker. Even your entire family wouldn't be alive right now if not for a trucker as people need "food" to survive which was delivered by "a truck". Would you get mad at a construction vehicle instead if they were the one's parked in the median??? That wouldn't make sense because it's the construction vehicles who helps to create/build the roads allot of people are too stupid to drive on safely. There are reasons those solid lines exist and those who disrespect the basic laws of lines on the road will eventually forfeit their own lives or the lives of others through reckless/illegal manuvering . I'm glad the truck was there instead of some smaller vehicle with flat tire/disabled otherwise the lives lost by the reckless driver could have been much higher via 2 vehicles blown up/destroyed completely instead of just 1.

[@prvncespalace1488]

I am a friend of Michelle’s and I do not believe the truck driver. I believe he did not indicate his intention when driving. Whether that was no hazard lights, no blinker, whatever it was he failed to do it resulting in this. Rest easy beautiful soul. We will miss you.

[@rickyedwards5480]

Sounds like you are grasping at straws.🤔

[@CarsonSenseney_metal_head666]

I'm friends with Michelle too

[@HavenSaved]

She should have been paying attention. How does someone miss a semi?!

[@jimbeam2705]

LOL 😂, if there was a block wall there without blinkers or hazard lights would the female driver run into it ? Probably if she wasn't paying attention.

[@jimbeam2705]

​@@CarsonSenseney_metal_head666LOL 😂, SURE YOU ARE.

[@sarawebb8247]

I know their names they were my friends. Their names were Kenzie Natalie and the mother was Michelle.

[@here_for_the]

😥

[@BWowed]

Horrible

[@christinajones5860]

Not trying to be funny why am I receiving news broadcast from totally different states that I'm in I keep turning them off but yet they keep popping up stuff is so aggravated I have enough issues in my own state anyone else has this happened

[@bettybelongia7213]

😢😢❤

[@user-yt9id8zq3g]

cell phone I'm guessing.

[@QUEENORLANDAGUTHRIE-hk6ed]

😘🙏❤️