![]() ![]() Members of three generations rode in the rented van. "It was like you died and went to hell," said Mitchell Jones, one of the first medics to arrive at the scene. Police said the minivan was so mangled that investigators don't know who was driving. The bodies of the three children were thrown into the fast lane. The temperature was 96 degrees, and gas fumes hung over the highway in the peanut country of southeastern Virginia as the Dodge Caravan's flaming engine block flew across traffic in the northbound lanes of I-95 near Emporia, nine miles from the North Carolina border. You look real cute, too.' Lord, I'll never see that baby again." And after I gave her the sunglasses, she said, Oh, Grandmother, I'm ready to go now!' And I said, Yes, you are. "Skye got to the elevator and said she'd lost her sunglasses," said Edmonds, 56. Tony, the toddler, had picked a purple bikini bathing suit for himself. She said the children were so excited about their noon departure for Myrtle Beach, S.C., that they took baths and started packing their backpacks at 6 a.m. On the night before their trip, the children stayed at the Richmond high-rise apartment of their grandmother, Ruth Edmonds, a retired cigarette plant worker. ![]() Bodies and debris were scattered across I-95, the East Coast's main north-south artery, which was closed for four hours. The accident killed eight people, including all six in the minivan, the driver of the tractor-trailer and a woman driving a car hit by the minivan. The children were headed to the beach Thursday afternoon for the Fourth of July when the minivan they were riding in drifted across the median of Interstate 95 in southeastern Virginia, running head-on into a tractor-trailer. Their cousin Corey, 12, was the angelic instigator of not-so-angelic shenanigans.
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