DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Three people were killed Tuesday night when a suspected carjacker fleeing from police drove the wrong way onto Interstate 95 in central Florida and collided head-on with another vehicle, authorities said.
Two other people were injured in the crash around 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The deceased included a brother and sister, riding in an SUV that collided with a wrong-way vehicle. A man driving the vehicle had been involved in a carjacking earlier Tuesday in Orange County, and was fleeing from sheriff's deputies on northbound I-95, Volusia County Sheriff's officials told news outlets.
The man turned into the southbound lanes, heading against traffic with his headlights off, sheriff's officials said.
Sheriff's deputies tried to stop the oncoming traffic, but the man's car hit another vehicle head-on.
The deceased SUV driver was a 21-year-old Wisconsin man. His 18-year-old sister, a front-seat passenger in the SUV also was killed, highway patrol Lt. Kim Montes told the Orlando Sentinel.
Two passengers in the backseat of SUV, A 17-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy, were taken to local hospitals with traumatic injuries, officials said.
The names of the three killed were also not released.
Southbound lanes of I-95 were closed to traffic as investigators collected evidence at the crash scene.