Five more people died at the hospital overnight after an SUV was found upside down in a canal in Belle Glade on Monday evening, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reported in an update.
Four people were pronounced dead at the scene following the wreck, officials confirmed at the time. In all, nine people have died in the single-vehicle crash. A tenth person, who was a passenger in the vehicle at the time, remains hospitalized.
According to the report, investigators determined the Ford Explorer was headed west on Hatton Highway around 7:30 p.m. in rural Belle Glade and the driver, who authorities have not identified at this time, failed to take the left-hand curve when the road turned south.
The SUV went off the road and onto a grass shoulder before striking a guardrail and overturning into the canal. Two of the six people found injured in the crash had to be flown to the hospital for treatment.
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