“Our hearts are broken, and our minds are overwhelmed,” a relative of the mom and teen said
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- A 17-year-old girl and her mother were both killed in a crash in Louisiana on Jan. 6, just months before they graduated
- A 21-year-old driver in another vehicle also died
- “We are struggling to understand how, in one moment, so many lives could be changed forever,” a relative of the mother and daughter wrote
A Louisiana mother and her 17-year-old daughter were killed in a crash just months before they were both set to graduate.
On the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 6, Joseph Prejean, 21, was allegedly speeding in the westbound lane of East Broussard Road, ABC affiliate KATC and NBC affiliate KADN reported. Meanwhile, Cherita Washington, 36, and her daughter Chase Washington, 17, were stopped at a red light, waiting to turn right on Johnston Street, when they were rear-ended by Prejean’s vehicle.
The impact caused the family’s vehicle to smash into a third vehicle, while Prejean’s vehicle crossed multiple lanes of traffic before hitting a utility pole, according to the outlets. The sole occupant of the third vehicle was treated for moderate injuries, but the three other victims did not survive…