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Precious 4-year-old girl dies after SUV crashes into a preschool playground: “She still had so much life to live”

A family in Florida is devastated after the loss of their little girl who died this week after a driver crashed into the playground of a preschool.

The heartbreaking death happened on Wednesday when an 18-year-old woman driving a Jeep Cherokee swerved off a DeSoto County roadway

According to a report by the Florida Highway Patrol, she drove through a chain-link fence around a playground at Imagination Station Learning Center in Arcadia, hitting two kids, one of them being 4-year-old Maleena Valdez, who was playing inside. The vehicle ultimately came to a halt after crashing into a tree. Read the full story here ▶