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Four-Car Crash In Lake Mary Kills 1 In Jeep Fire

A four-car accident on Interstate 4 ended up in a huge fireball when a Jeep Cherokee was rear-ended and caught fire, killing its driver.
 
Traffic was slowing down and coming to a halt on the westbound lanes of I-4 last Wednesday around 6 p.m., east of Lake Mary Boulevard. A 31-year-old woman, Chemwapuwa Jackson, of Altamonte Springs, failed to slow down her SUV and crashed into the rear of a Jeep Cherokee, which slammed into two other cars. The crash triggered an explosion, and the Cherokee burst into flames, the fire quickly spreading to the SUV behind.
 
Emergency crews were able to extract the driver of the Cherokee, and he was transported to Orlando Regional Hospital with severe burns and in extremely critical condition.
 
A male passenger in the Cherokee died in the fire. The occupants of the other two vehicles were not injured. Jackson was taken to Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford for treatment of minor injuries.
 
A spokesperson from the Florida Highway Patrol declared that Jackson would likely be charged, but that they first had to conclude the crash investigation.
 
The names of the occupants of the Jeep Cherokee have not been released.
 
In an email sent to news agencies after it had been questioned on the explosion, Chrysler declared, “This was a tragic, high-speed crash with an SUV involving a Jeep Grand Cherokee that is more than 11 years old, and you have no insight into how a peer vehicle might have performed in a similar, violent, high-speed rear impact.”

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