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PASCHALL-BROWN IS LIVE FROM NORTH SEMORAN BOULEVARD, WHERE THIS HAPPENE WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? GAIL: WE ARE TOLD THE MOTORCYCLIST WAS GOING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. THE MOTORCYCLE IS STILL ON THE SCENE. A WOMAN IN HER MID-20’S DEAD, SO AS A YOUNG CHILD AROUND FIVE YEARS OLD TO SEVEN YEARS OLD. BOTH WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT TWO LOCAL HOSPITALS TONIGHT AFTER A FATAL CRASH HERE IN ORANGE COUNTY. THE DRIVER OF THIS MOTORCYCLE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER TH PEDESTRIAN-INVOLVED FATAL CRASH ON OLD CHENE HIGHWAY AND SEMORAN BOULEVARD IN ORANGE COUNTY. WITNESSES TELL THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL THE MOTORCYCLIST WAS TRAVELING AT AN EXTREME HIGH RATE OF SPEED IN AND OUT OF TRAFFIC. A MOTORCYCLE WAS SOUTHBOUND ON SEMORAN AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED AND STRUCK THE T PEDESTRIANS, THEN LOST CONTROL, WENT INTO THE CENTER MEDIAN, THEN STRUCK A VAN WAS COMING NORTHBOUND. >> ALL I SAW WAS THE WOMAN AND CHILD CROSS TO THE MEDIAN, AND THEN LEAN FORWARD TO CONTINU CROSSING AND THEN EVERYTHING FLYING IN THE AIR. GAIL THE WITNESS WAS IN SHOCK AFTER THAT. FHP HAS NOT HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO THE MOTORCYCLIST BECAUSE HE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. LIEUTENANT KIM MONTES SAY THIS FATAL CRASH COULD RISE TO THE LEVEL OF A CRIMINAL CHARGE IF THE MOTORCYCLIST DOES SURVIVE. NO ONE WAS HURT IN THE MINIVAN. ANOTHER WITNESS TOLD WESH 2 NEWS THE MOTORCYCLIST WAS BEHIND HER IN TRAFFIC. SHE HEARD THE ENGINE REVVED UP AND SAW THE MOTORCYCLIST GOING AT LEAST 100 MILES AN HOUR

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