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Six people, including a young mother and her four children, were killed on a Kentucky highway Saturday in a wrong-way, head-on car crash, authorities said.
Greene was transported to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, as were three children traveling in her vehicle: Santanna Greene, 11; Brayden Greene, 5; and Jack Greene, 2, according to police and afamily obituary.
Karmen Greene, 9, was sitting in the front seat of the car and was pronounced dead at the scene, as was Jamaica Natasha Caudill, the 38-year-old driver of the car driving the wrong way, theAssociated Pressreported.
“It’s very, very hard, and the mere number — five at once — is very hard to handle,” Trish Bryant, Greene’s adoptive mother, told NBC affiliateWLWT. “She loved her children. She would do anything for those children, and you never, ever, ever heard the word stepchild in her home. Her two daughters were from her husband and they were her bonus daughters.”
Greene married Jon Greene after they met and fell in “love at first sight” in 2017, according to aGoFundMe pagethat’s raised about $15,000 to help cover funeral costs.
Together they blended their families, which included Santanna and Karmen, Jon’s daughters from a previous relationship, and two additional sons that the couple welcomed together, according to a family obituary.
Asecond GoFundMe pagehas raised nearly $13,000 for the family during what will be “the hardest time they will ever have to face in their lives,” the page said.
Saturday’s tragedy was the second crash involving a wrong-way driver that resulted in multiple fatalities on I-75 in Lexington since 2019, when six people died after a suspected drunken driver struck a vehicle carrying five family members on vacation, the Associated Press reported.
source: people.com
