Joe DeRouen

A passing semi-trailer hauling gasoline, whose driver was confounded by the sight of a dozen white-tailed bucks and does flooding into traffic, swerved to avoid hitting the deer and instead slammed headlong into a minivan containing a vacationing couple with their two-year-old twin daughters, killing them instantly. The semi jack-knifed over the van and careened into the side of a hill, exploding in a rain of metal and gas.