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Woman Who Survived Pulse Nightclub Massacre Dies in Car Crash

A young woman who survived the massacre at Pulse, a gay Orlando nightclub, has been killed in a highway car crash.
/ Source: The Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — A young woman who survived a massacre at a gay Florida nightclub has been killed in a highway car crash.

Orlando television station WFTV reported Monday that 20-year-old Jahqui Sevilla was driving on an Orlando-area highway early Sunday when she lost control of her car for an unknown reason. The car jumped the highway median and hit an SUV traveling in the opposite lanes head-on.

The Florida Highway Patrol says Soraya Matias-Roth, 53, of Lakeland, Florida, who was in the SUV, also was killed and three others in the SUV were hospitalized with injuries not considered life-threatening.

The highway patrol said in an accident report that the crash is still under investigation.

Sevilla played for the Orlando Anarchy Women's Football team, which posted news of the death and its condolences on Facebook.

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