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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A Volusia County employee was killed Monday morning in a fiery crash involving a Votran bus and a county utility truck near Daytona Beach, officials said.
The fatal crash was reported around 8 a.m. on International Speedway Boulevard near Indian Lake Road, west of I-4 and I-95.
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“I literally ran to the door and I saw the bus and then the city truck literally both on fire,” Racha Stevenson said.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, a 52-year-old South Daytona man was driving the truck east when he failed to slow down and struck the back of the bus, which was stopped in the right lane to allow passengers off.
The utility truck caught fire, and the truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene, the FHP said.
Stevenson lives nearby the scene of the crash and called 911 as her fiance tried to help the driver.
“We tried to smash the windows and let the air out, because he was a little too much clogged up with smoke inside,” Stevenson said. “When you see it. He’s right there, still with you alive, trying as much as he can to actually fight for his life and he was fighting for his life and we tried. We really tried.”
Fourteen of the 15 bus passengers were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, troopers said. The bus driver, a 62-year-old Ormond Beach woman, suffered minor injuries, the FHP report said.
International Speedway Boulevard was closed in both directions in the area, but westbound lanes were later reopened.
“God be with his (the victim’s) family. I’m hoping that God will be with his family,” Stevenson said.
No other details have been released.
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