6-Vehicle Crash Leaves One Person Dead
Published May 15th, 2012
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By: Yaremi Farinas
There's no word tonight who is at fault for a deadly chain reaction crash involving an Alachua County vehicle this morning.
A county employee was killed when a public works dump truck crushed her car.
"To be a loving caregiver like that, you know that's a huge loss in our community, huge loss," said Hilary Hynes.
Animal Services employees are mourning the loss of one their co-workers killed in this tragic accident.
"There are no words to describe what you feel when your becoming involved with something like that. You go through that can't be her, that can't be that person," said Hynes.
Hynes who works for Alachua County Animal Services said they were on their back from a public works all hands meeting in Alachua.
The crash happened right in front of Alachua County Animal Services on 53rd avenue.
Out of the six vehicles, two were dump trucks.
This county public works dump truck crushed the car driven by the animal service employee.
We know three others were transported to the hospital.
One of them was this man's 24- year- old daughter.
"She was on her way to work when like I said basically she told me she was driving along when she seen some smoke, tried to run off the road and hit the side of the truck in the process," said Chester Ivan Mullins.
His daughter was driving A GMC pick up truck that is totaled.
Fortunately she was not seriously injured.
Some county employees found out about the tragedy later in the morning.
There was an announcement at the Alachua County Commission meeting.
"It's tragic. I know it's going to be a very difficult time moving forward," said County Commissioner Paula DeLaney.
She told us it as a human tragedy your never prepared for.
"It's hard. This is going to be hard time for all of us to get through," said Hynes.
Hynes said Crisis Intervention workers were on the scene to talk to fellow co-workers and offer counseling.
The Florida Highway Patrol is in charge of the investigation and have not yet release a report.
