FL Mom Loses 3 Kids, Mother In Crash After 15-Year-Old Runs Stop Sign: Police

POINCIANA, FL — Three children were among four people killed Sunday when a 15-year-old driver ran a stop sign in Poinciana and crashed into their SUV, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Police said the crash happened shortly before 7 p.m. in the city about 40 miles south of Orlando. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 15-year-old boy was driving a Chevy Impala north on Laurel Avenue at a high rate of speed when he failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of San Miguel Street.

Police said the Impala struck the driver's side of a Honda HR-V traveling west on San Miguel Street. The impact caused the SUV to rotate and slide onto the grass shoulder before it collided with a light pole, police said.

The Honda was carrying five people, police said. Three children — ages 11, 9 and 1 — died in the crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The Honda's driver — a 50-year-old woman — also died.

Another passenger in the Honda — a 52-year-old man — was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

According to police, the driver of the Impala was also taken to the hospital in serious condition. Three 15-year-old passengers in the Impala suffered minor injuries, police said.

Police told WKMG in Orlando that the teen driver did not have a learner's permit. The crash remains under investigation.

At a vigil held Monday night at the crash site, Sabrina Hernandez confirmed her three children and her mother were killed in the crash, WKMG reported.

"When I tell you I'm dying inside, I'm dying inside, OK?" Hernandez told the station. "I'm dying inside. I don't get to see my children anymore. I don't get to see my mother anymore."

Hernandez called for more traffic law enforcement in the area at the vigil.

“Are we not worth it in Poinciana? Do we count at all? What is the difference that you can go into another town and there’s cops everywhere?” she said.