Truck Crashes into Creola Home, Two Dead

Around two o'clock Friday morning Anna Walker heard a noise next door. "I just heard a big boom sound and I came out to see where it was coming from but when I came out I couldn't see nothing. It was dark."

What she couldn't see was a truck that had crashed through her brother's home, killing him and his wife while they slept. "When I got back out of here about four o'clock my husband he told me that the truck, that there was a hole in the house. So I started calling and there was no answer."

The driver of the truck ran away. "We have a couple of reports as to where he may be so we're making attempts to locate him and pick him up at this time," says Police Chief Jerry Taylor.

The truck flew through the intersection at Lister Dairy Road and Old Highway 43. Went off the road, jumped the ditch, crashing into the house, into the bedroom. A distance of about 300 feet.

When the truck was finally removed from the house, Taylor says police had their first real clues as to who it belonged too. "We removed several items that were in the truck just to establish the identity of who the driver may have been but right now it just reinforces what we suspected."

They are working with Florida authorities to find him.

Family gathered throughout the morning, doing what they could to comfort each other. "They were very fine people, very well liked. So this is going to be a tragedy for the entire community," says Taylor.

But especially for the family. "Just hard working. My brother and his wife, they hard working people. They just went to work every day and tried to live a normal life," says Walker.

The names of the victims have not been released at the request of the family while out-of-state relatives are notified.