Nation : Van Falls Into Canal, 10 Drown
A van carrying farm workers ran off a foggy rural road and slid into a canal today, drowning 10 people and injuring two.
The driver and a front-seat passenger crawled out of the submerged van through windows, but the others were trapped in the vehicle, which ran off the road at a curve six miles from this farm community, sheriff’s Lt. Bill Chamness said.
He said all 12 people in the privately owned van were Mexican migrant workers.
The sheriff’s office did not receive word of the 7:30 a.m. crash until 7:46 a.m., authorities said. The accident occurred about 100 miles northwest of Miami.
The victims “were still in the van when we got there,” Chamness said. “They were drowned.”
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