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SUV crash that killed 9 family members followed matriarch’s 80th birthday celebration

Nine people, including six children, were killed Monday evening when the SUV they were riding in flipped into a canal in northwestern Palm Beach County. One person survived. (WPEC-Ch. 12/Courtesy)
Nine people, including six children, were killed Monday evening when the SUV they were riding in flipped into a canal in northwestern Palm Beach County. One person survived. (WPEC-Ch. 12/Courtesy)
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It was a weekend to celebrate a beloved family matriarch, surrounded by generations of her loved ones at her disco-themed 80th birthday party. But it ended in tragedy, after an SUV carrying 10 family members careened into a canal in western Palm Beach County, killing 9 people, six of them children.

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