A fatal car wreck in the Panhandle led to three Massachusetts high school seniors dead and one critically injured, according to law enforcement and school officials.
The Florida Highway Patrol said on April 21, an SUV with four 18-year-old students from Concord-Carlisle High School collided with a tractor-trailer making a U-turn in the paved median of U.S. 98 in Walton County.
The driver and one passenger were pronounced dead at the scene, the FHP said. The other two passengers were transported to a hospital to be treated for severe injuries, and one died the next day, according to school officials.
What happened in the Florida crash that killed Massachusetts students?
According to the FHP, at about 9:28 p.m., the students were traveling westbound in an SUV on Highway 98 in Inlet Beach about a mile west of South Watersound Parkway when it crashed into a tractor-trailer making a U-turn in the median…