Survivor of crash that killed five feels 'blessed'

Survivor of crash that killed five feels 'blessed'
Oct 20, 2008
5 perish; 2 children remain hospitalized
Jeff Kunerth | Sentinel Staff Writer
October 20, 2008
Gina Merceron sees the world through the slit of her swollen right eye and a bloodied left eye. The right side of her face is puffy, her head hurts and she feels dizzy when she stands. She is the lucky one.

Of the eight people inside her white 2000 Ford Expedition that overturned into a canal in South Florida on Friday night, she is the only one not dead or in a hospital. The crash claimed the lives of five people, three of them children. Two other children remain in serious condition.

"I feel pain. My body hurts," she said Sunday, wearing plastic identification bracelets from two hospitals on her left and right wrists. "But if you ask me how I feel, I feel blessed."
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