Distressing photos show what happened after life coach’s spoiled daughter, 19, sped Lexus at 118mph… and cruel twist of fate that saw her hurtle into the path of a lawyer’s minivan
Lorene Seeler Young’s minivan was only in the path of the speeding car that killed her because of a cruel twist of fate.
The grandmother, 65, didn’t get up quite early enough and missed her 4.30am flight out of Fort Lauderdale Airport on May 19, 2024.
Dejected, she secured another flight for later in the day and was being driven home on I-595 by her mother Virginia Baker, 84, in her 2022 Chrysler Pacifica.
Suddenly, the minivan was hit from behind and sent hurtling through four lanes of traffic and crashing into a concrete barrier near Davie, Florida, at 5.43am.
Wannabe model Sofia Todorov, then 19, had smashed into the Pacifica with her mother’s 2024 Lexus IS at 118mph, according to police analysis of the crash.
Young and Baker were thrown forward against the dashboard as their car collided with the barrier at high speed.
The force of the impact spun the minivan around and violently slammed its rear into the barrier a second time before it finally came to rest.
Young, an accomplished lawyer who ran her own firm, was killed and Baker escaped from the wrecked Pacifica with serious injuries.
‘[Baker] only recalls the sound of a loud impact and then she blacked out,’ Florida Highway Patrol investigators wrote in a report obtained by the Daily Mail.
‘When [she] opened her eyes, she remembered seeing her radio and entire dashboard hanging out, and seeing smoke around her vehicle.
‘[Baker] observed [Young] slumped over the front passenger seat with blood coming out of her mouth and she could hear [Young] making sounds.’
Crash scene photos obtained by the Daily Mail showed the frightening intensity of the collision and the injuries Young and Baker suffered.
The two cars were reduced to crushed and twisted metal and mangled engine parts, with debris strewn across the highway.
Streaks of blood stained the white paint of the roof and door of the Pacifica where Baker clambered out of the wreck to desperately wave for help.
No one driving on the highway that morning stopped.
Inside the minivan, Young’s suitcase, packed for her trip, was flung open and clothes and toiletries strewn across the back seats.
Young’s flip-flops lay on the floor of the passenger seat where they were left when she was pulled from the car with her life slipping away.
