Crash in tampa overnight. These images, tough to look at as we find out a mother and her 3 children were inside one of those vehicles. We want to get to abc action news anchor, Lindsay Logue outside Tampa International with the heart breaking update. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, absolutely heart breaking, that mother and her 2 Young Children died in the crash. A third child here condition. There is a 4th person that was involved, a 4th child in serious condition here at the hospital. I want to get you the latest information right now that troopers just gave to us within the last hour, get you up to speed on the crash. For whatever reason, a man named pablo cortes crossed the median into on coming traffic on mlk near coconut palm drive. When he did, he slammed head on into marianela murillos mini that mini van immediately burst into flames, trapping marianela murillo inside along with 4 children. 3 of them, her own. She and her children, a 9yearold and 10yearold, died. Co
Kropff. And im ian reitz. Right now, were on top of a awful story out of Hillsborough County. We know at least four people were killed in an overnight crash. It happened just before 10 last night on Martin Luther king in tampa. Right near coconut palm drive. 10news reporter emerald morrow is live where this all took place. Emerald, there are reports of a sports car event that was going on nearby. Was that related to this crash . Were waiting on fhp officials to tell us if at least some of the cars were somehow connected to that event. And if that can point us to a cause. But right now, what we do know is at least four people lost their lives here on this street. Loking at the really give an accurate depiction of what happeed. But if you look at this video. Youll understand right away why this was so tragic. Youve got at least one car that caught on fire after the crash. And the other totaled cars all over the street. There were dozens of emergency officials here tending to the scene. A
This is 10news this morning at 6. Good thursday morning. Welcome to 10news this morning. I am allison kropff. Im ian reitz. Snow is falling in the northeast. And there is more damage in italy after strong aftershocks overnight. We are on top of a deadly crash in tampa. Emerald morrow is live at the scene this morning. Emerald, that road is back open mlk near coconut palm drive at 10 00 last night. Emerald morrow has been on top of the story for us and getting reaction on social media. What can you tell us this morning . Reporter you know, news travels so fast in this digital age we live in. Oftentimes, when tragedies happen social media is the first place people turn to know about their loss, and we are already seeing that in this happened right here on this road. We are making calls to confirm, but a local mom has already reached out to family on facebook to say her son was one of the victims in last nights crash. Now, this is what family and friends had to see last night when they go
Late night crash on state road 574 and mlk boulevard had the lanes shut down for hours. Four people are dead. Walter fox 13s Shayla Reaves is out there live. jen 2shot lets get over to vanessa now for a look at the to vanessa now for lets get over jen developing story out of lutz. Where a driver has crashed a car into a home. Deputies havent released a lot of information. We do know that a vehicle hit a home on sandy shores drive. Thats just off lutz lake fern road. The driver also hit a transformer, knocking out power to the neighborhood. That power is back on. And the family inside the home it, is ok. But we arent sure about the condition about the driver involved or what caused the accident. We have a photographer at the scene, working to get more information. The race for th house appears to be tightening up a bit. In a newly released fox news poll. Hillary clintons lead is cut to just three points in a four way race. 44 percent to 41 percent. Thats down from six points just a week
70degree mark in clearwater and 71 in st. Petersburg. Dew points are manageable. You know, as long as we can keep that number where it is in the lower 60s. It may sneak up to the mid 60s. I think well be okay. Another very warm afternoon coming at us with a mixture of clouds and sun. Your highs go back to the mid 80s. Vanessa . Vanessa and right now we want to get to the scene video out of the lutz area. A vehicle has crashed into a home and this is all happening off of Heritage Harbor road. The driver, unfortunately, died. We are able to tell you, however, the folks in the home are okay. Power was knocked out briefly to the neighborhood, but were hearing thats restored. We do have some lane blocks reported on lutz lake fern road on Heritage Harbor road. While we were to get more information, well give you more work arounds and bring you those looks like state road 54 up to the north is probably going to be one good work around and the second one is van dyke which is going to be toward