- April 17, 2024
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A sport utility vehicle carrying a woman and two children careened into a retention pond after a collision with another car on Palm Coast Parkway the evening of June 1.
Numerous bystanders stopped to rescue the woman and the two girls from the sinking SUV, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
The crash happened at about 5:02 p.m. as Palm Coast resident Jacqueline Brimhall, 34, was driving west on the inside lane of Palm Coast Parkway. She had two girls, ages 7 and 11, in her 2012 Dodge Caravan.
Brimwell was approaching the north-south access road reaching between the Winn-Dixie shopping center and the Tire Kingdom when a 2017 Chevrolet Equinox pulled south out of the Tire Kingdom parking lot and into Brimwell's path as its driver, 70-year-old Linda Svihlik, tried to cross the parkway.
The left front side of Svihlik's Chevrolet struck the right front side of Brimwell's Dodge, according to the FHP report.
The Chevrolet spun and overturned, and the Dodge sped southwest into a retention pond in the wide median between the westbound and eastbound lanes of Palm Coast Parkway. Bystanders rescued the three from the pond.
Svihlik had serious injuries and was taken to Florida Hospital Flagler. Brimhall and the two girls were both hospitalized at Florida Hospital Flagler with minor injuries.
An FHP investigation determined that Svihlik had violated Brimhall's right-of-way when she pulled out into the Parkway from a stop sign at the driveway access. She is being charged with violation of right-of-way from a stop sign intersection, a civil infraction, according to the FHP report.
