Four dead after car crashes into Southlake pond
Four people are dead after the car they were in crashed through a fence and landed upside down in a Southlake pond.
Shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, a Toyota Avalon ran a stop sign, smashed through a fence and bounced off of a tree before ultimately landing upside down in a six-foot-deep pond outside a Southlake home.
Two of the four victims, 56-year-old Monty Hardy and 35-year-old Hadassah Vance, died at a Grapevine hospital within an hour of the accident. The two remaining victims, 38-year-old Wendy Akion and 56-year-old Sharon Ransom, died overnight at the hospital.
According to Officer Roderick Page, a spokesman for the Southlake Department of Public Safety, traffic investigators have yet to determine whether the car accident was caused by driver error or a vehicle malfunction.
The possible vehicle malfunction being referred to is a stuck accelerator, a problem that forced Toyota to recall over 4 million vehicles this year. The Toyota Avalon is one of the models subject to the recall.
According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administrations, the floor mats can interfere with the functioning of the accelerator pedal, causing the throttle to stick open.
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