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Three young girl scouts in Kentucky died in a grisly car crash after one of their mothers attempted a U-turn on a busy highway and was hit by a truck.
Kylie Lunn and Laila El Azri, both nine, and Brooklyn Peery, eight, were on their way to a girl scout event on Saturday morning when Amber Peery drove through a barrier wall on I-335, Kansas police said.
Their car was immediately struck by a semi-tractor trailer truck driven by Robert Hosey Russell, 70, killing the three girls.
Amber was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, along with her son, Carrington, 5, and nine-year-old Gabriella Ponomarez, another girl scout. Russell was not injured in the crash.
But the three young girls, all from Topeka, Kentucky, died in the tragic collision.
Sharing her heartbreak over her daughter’s death, Amber wrote on Facebook: ‘I honestly don’t know how I’m going to keep going without you, but I know I have to and everything I do will be with a purpose for you.
‘Mommy loves you so much sweet girl and all I want is to be able to hold you in my arms again.’
Three girl scouts from Topeka, Kansas, died in a car crash on Saturday. Brooklyn Peery (left), 8, was one of the victims after her mother, Amber (right) made a U-turn through a barrier wall and her car was struck by a semi-tractor trailer
Kylie Lunn, 9, (above) also lost her life in the horrific crash off I-335
Her best friend, Laila El Azri (above), 9, was the third fatality in the crash
Pictured: Amber’s car following the crash. Amber and her son also suffered injuries from the crash, as well as a fourth girl scout, Gabriella Ponomarez, 9
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the accident happened just after 9 a.m. on I-335 near SW 69th Street.
Residents told WIBW 13 that cars frequently use the emergency U-turn opening by the barrier wall where Amber’s car was hit.
Also mourning her daughter was Tiffany Lunn, who said her daughter Kylie was best friends with fellow victim Laila. Both girls were fourth graders at Farley Elementary School.
‘She was my everything and I was her everything and my heart is just broken right now,’ Tiffany wrote on Facebook. ‘ I just don’t know where to go from here, she was my purpose, she was my everything, I’m just lost without her.’
A GoFundMe page for Laila was set up by loved ones to help her family pay for funeral costs.
‘Laila was on a day out with her Girl Scout troop,’ the page read. ‘What was going to be a fun day turned to tragedy.’
The families’ neighbors set up a memorial site for the two girls on Sunday at a park the kids frequented.
Amber went on Facebook to mourn her daughter’s death. Brooklyn (above) was a third grader at the Jay Shideler Elementary School
Neighbors of Laila and Kylie set up a memorial site where the girls often played
Robert Hosey Russell, 70, was driving the truck that struck the girl scouts. He did not suffer any injuries from the deadly crash
The Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri also confirmed the girls’ death, mourning the young lives lost.
‘Our hearts are broken for the girls and families of Troop 5567 from Topeka, Kansas who tragically lost three Girl Scouts in an automobile accident on Saturday,’ CEO Joy Wheeler said in a statement. ‘Our thoughts also go out to one Girl Scout with critical injuries in the hospital and the other Girl Scouts involved in the accident.’
‘Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri grieves with the families, friends and loved ones of Brooklyn, Laila, and Kylie as together we comfort one another in the wake of this terrible tragedy,’ Wheeler added.
‘We are supporting the families and troop as they grieve and will honor the lives of our three Girl Scout sisters.’
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