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And sideswiped the taylor university van, ripping it open. the impact flung passengers and their belongings all over the interstate. five of the nine people on the van were killed instantly. they were transported to the county hospital. the four survivors all suffered injuries, some serious. one young woman had been thrown 50 feet from the wreckage. she was barely breathing and was quickly airlifted to the nearest trauma center, parkview hospital in ft. wayne. that's where laura van ryn's family was told to go. they arrived at about 1:15 in the morning. >> in the lobby right there there were a...

she left me a message, i believe, on their trip up to fort wayne. i didn't call her back. >> at about 8:00 p.m., their work done, laura and whitney, along with seven other students and staff members were riding in a school van heading south on interstate 69 toward the main campus. whitney's sister carly, also a student at taylor, was the first to hear that something was wrong. >> my friend ben drove up and told me that there was an accident and he thought that whitney was in it. so i called her cell phone and there was no answer. i started to kind of worry. i called her cell phone again and...