FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida Highway Patrol officials on Sunday revised the number people killed when a bus carrying Haitian farmworkers and a tractor-trailer collided in the Panhandle, putting the latest death toll at four.
Authorities declined to comment on the error and had previously reported that five people were killed in Saturday’s crash.
A Florida pastor said Sunday he is working with authorities to help identify the four killed and the 25 injured in the crash. The farmworkers do not speak English, making the process even more difficult.
The Rev. Frantz Gaudard of Belle Glade said the bus had come from Georgia, where the farmworkers were employed.
Authorities said the bus was carrying roughly 34 adults and children when it ran a flashing red light and a stop sign before hitting the tractor-trailer Saturday. Both vehicles burned.
