Four injured including 3-year-old as car crashes into ocean

At least four people, including a three-year-old child, were injured when a car careened into the ocean after crashing into a toll booth.

The car was driving on International Speedway Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida, when it destroyed a toll booth and went careening off the road.

The car continued driving through the crowded International Speedway Boulevard beach until it hit the ocean.

‘We heard a loud crash and when we turned around it was the car coming down the ramp at 40 miles an hour,’ witness Nicole Mathis told WESH. ‘It obliterated the tollbooth and it still came barreling all the way through and people were dodging to get out of the way.’

A spokesperson for Volusia County Beach Safety said that the driver may have been experiencing a medical episode, but the incident was still under investigation.

At least one child swimming in the water was struck by the car. The child were taken to Halifax Health Medical Center near the beach and treated for a chest wound.

Several other people were injured during the crash, but the toll booth was unoccupied when the driver hit it.

The crash occurred just before 5pm on Sunday and was reported by beachgoers, who told 911 that a car was in the water.

Some witnesses described seeing another child in the front seat of the car.

‘I thought I saw a little boy up front, about his size, at the front of the vehicle so we were,’ another witness, Jack Lofland, told WESH. ‘We all ran to the front and we tried to get under the bumper of the car, all three of us, and we couldn’t find anybody.’

The driver of the car was an adult man, witnesses said.

‘He was unconscious at that time and then he came to and he seemed really out of it,’ Lofland said.

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