Baby, 12-Year-Old Girl Die In 3-Vehicle Pileup In Plant City

PLANT CITY, FL — A three-vehicle pileup Sunday night killed five people, including a 1-year-old baby and a 12-year-old girl.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, at 9:22 p.m. Sunday, a 2015 Ford Explorer driven by a 20-year-old Zephyrhills woman and carrying six passengers, including a 1-year-old, 5-year-old and 12-year-old child, was headed north on State Road 39 north of Bruton Road when it crossed the centerline and collided nearly head on with a Nissan Frontier pickup truck heading south, driven by a 52-year-old Valrico man.

Troopers said the pickup truck spun and came to rest in the southbound lane of SR 39. The crash knocked out its lights and the 60-year-old Plant City driver of a tractor-truck heading south on SR 39 failed to see it and crashed into the passenger side of the pickup.

The drivers from Zephyrhills and Valrico died at the scene as did the 12-year-old girl and a 56-year-old woman, both from Zephyrhills.

The 1-year-old baby girl was taken to the hospital where she later died.

A 22-year-old woman, 31-year-old woman and a 5-year-old girl, all from Zephyrhills, suffered serious injuries.

The driver of the tractor-trailer truck was uninjured.