OAK HILL -- Four motorists lost their lives on Interstate 95 in Volusia County during the Thanksgiving weekend, the last two a husband and wife Sunday afternoon just north of Maytown Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
A woman was killed Saturday night near Ormond Beach and an Edgewater man near that city earlier that afternoon.
John McGarvey, 64, and his 59-year-old wife, Elizabeth, of St. Johns County, perished Two people were killed Sunday afternoon when a northbound van overturned on Interstate 95 near Oak Hill, a Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman said.
McGarvey was directly behind the pick-up truck when he opted to try and pass by going into the right inside lane. But on his way back into the left lane, struck the truck's right fender, whech sent the van careening into a tree on the front passenger side and then overturning.
The McGarveys, returning home after Thanksgiving, were pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:10 p.m. crash near mile marker 236 in Oak Hill.
Two passengers in the McGarveys' 2005 Chrysler van, Patricia Jackson, 42, and James Jackson, 19, both of Jacksonville and sitting in the back seat, were transported to Halifax Medical Center in serious condition.
The McGarveys were strapped in their seat belts, but the highway patrol wasn't certain if the two injured passengers were wearing theirs.
Daniel Wood, 57, of Winter Springs, operator of the 2010 Chevy pick up, was not injured. Neither were his passengers, Daniel Wood, 37, and 13-year-old trae Staker, a boy, and both of Winter Springs. All three were wearing their seat belts.
The crash forced the FHP to close both northbound lanes for an hour before opening one of them, backing up traffic well into Brevard County. The accident is under investigation, but alchol was not a factor, Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Kim Montes said.
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