POLICE are investigating an accident in which a car ended up on a beach in Daytona Beach Florida, in which four people, including a child, were injured.
According to WESH 2, a driver in a white Nissan Altima sedan crashed into a toll booth, hitting four people.
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The toll booth was not occupied.
“I was standing right next to it, friend. I was right next to it. It left right next to us. It was a good 80 to 90 miles per hour,” Richie DeLagarza told Spectrum News. “It didn’t slow down. Everyone ran away as if something serious had happened.”
The car, with two children, an adult woman and a male driver, ended up in the water.
They struggled to escape.
“I heard a huge bang. I mean, I thought it was fireworks going off or I mean something bad just happened,” Jake Lofland told Click Orlando, referring to the toll booth crash.
“It went like 40 miles per hour, and it destroyed the toll booth and got all the way through it. People dodged left and right to get out of the way,” Nicole Mathis told the outlet.
Mathis and Lofland and his wife, Shannon, tried to save the car by pushing it out of the waves and onto the beach.
“Our son was in the water, so I left and called his name and went to the water,” said Shannon Lofland.
They then worked to push the car out of the waves and get it back on the beach and get the family out of the car.
They struggled to escape.
“The car just drove back and forth and kept hitting us. It was dangerous and Nicole said you have to roll down the window, you have to get out the window,” Shannon said.
They eventually got the two girls and the grown woman out of the car.
They all said the driver was unconscious but came to and was treated by lifeguards.
“Apparently he said I was going to have a seizure and they thought he was joking, but then he actually had a seizure so they knew all the way down the road that he was unconscious and unable to drive,” said Mathis.
Volusia County Beach Safety told the station that five people have been taken to hospital, including the child.
The child is now in stable condition.
The other four people, who were taken to hospital as a precaution, were in the car that crashed.
They are all stable.