Cedar Point trip for grieving children ends in tragic crash Outing was to boost family who lost mom to cancer By Jim Lynch / The Detroit News Daniel Miller / Associated Press Two SpongeBob SquarePants toys were found floating in Turtle Creek, where authorities found the Escalade upside down. Witnesses said a Blazer crossed the center line on Ohio's Route 2 and struck a tractor-trailer, which hit this Escalade and another car. Six of the seven people in the Escalade died. Darryl K. Scott's plan was to take his daughters on several road trips this summer as a way to help them cope with the death of their mother last fall from cancer. Sunday's trip to Cedar Point Amusement Park was one of several excursions planned for the coming months. All of those plans were destroyed Monday night in a multivehicle accident that left six dead. Those killed in the accident were Scott, 44, of Detroit; two of his daughters, Alexis Howard, 9, and Alecia Howard, 7, both of Eastpointe; his niece Ariel Scott, 12, of Detroit; his girlfriend, Shannon Scott, 24, of Romulus; and a sixth passenger, Amber Channey, 6, of Ypsilanti. Another of Darryl Scott's daughters, 13-year-old Brandi Scott, was the vehicle's lone survivor. She was airlifted from the scene and was in critical condition at Mercy Children's Hospital in Toledo. “He was just enhancing what he was doing before for them,” said Eboni Pittman of her uncle and his efforts to make his children happy. The crash happened on the sometimes maligned Ohio Route 2, one of two primary routes for Michigan visitors to Cedar Point, the popular Sandusky amusement park on Lake Erie. See Detroit News Story Contact An Attorney
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