Two killed, 13 injured in I-75 wreck
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Posted 8:07PM on Monday 30th September 2002 ( 22 years ago )
ASHBURN - Two women were killed and 13 others were injured when a van carrying a soccer club from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, collided with two other vehicles on Interstate 75 in south Georgia. <br>
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The Georgia State Patrol says Sasja Odenyo, a former soccer player for Florida International University, and Theresa Wint, a former athletic trainer at FIU, died in the collision last night involving the van, a car and U-Haul truck about 80 miles north of the Florida state line. <br>
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Another former FIU player, Erika Jaderblom, remained hospitalized Monday. <br>
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The van carrying members of the Florida Rockets soccer team was returning to the Fort Lauderdale area after an Atlanta-area tournament. Most of the 15 people in the vehicle were exchange students from Jamaica or Sweden.
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