Father and 3-year-old killed in tragic crash identified

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Picture shows Sean and Harlen Grace Tumlin astatine a autumn festival this year

JACKSONVILLE, Fla – A parent is successful mourning aft her fiancé and young girl died successful a tragic clang aboriginal Sunday morning.

Miranda Prater, her fiancé Sean Tumlin and their 5 children were coating pumpkins Saturday nighttime into aboriginal Sunday greeting erstwhile they decided to spell to the store for a candy run.

It’s thing they did often, according to Prater. Tumlin loaded up 2 of their daughters, 3-year-old Harlen Grace Tumlin and 8-year-old Susan Wright, into the car portion the remainder of the household stayed astatine home.

As Tumlin was driving the family’s grey Cadillac SUV westbound connected Clark Road adjacent the I-95 overpass, the conveyance swerved into the eastbound lanes, deed a guardrail, and past plummeted into the southbound lanes of 95, flipping respective times earlier coming to a stop.

31-year-old Sean Tumlin was ejected and died astatine the country of the crash. Harlen Grace and Susan were rushed to the hospital, but Harlen didn’t survive.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Susan had captious injuries, but Prater said Susan is OK. She has seatbelt lacerations and a insignificant fracture, but is different OK “because Daddy buckled maine up,” the 8-year-old had said to her mother.

Prater is heartbroken.

“People support telling maine ‘I’m truthful sorry.’ and ‘I’m atrocious for your loss,’ but it doesn’t help. I conscionable privation them back,” she said, crying.

The origin of the clang is inactive nether investigation. The Sheriff’s Office asked for the nationalist to support the household successful its prayers.

In the meantime, Prater is readying the memorials for her fiancé and daughter. If you privation to assistance the family, a GoFundMe was made to assistance with ceremonial expenses. A backstage work volition beryllium held connected Saturday, October 23 astatine 11 a.m.

The deaths of the 31-year-old and 3-year-old people the 169th and 170th postulation deaths successful Duval County successful 2021.

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