Five members of family killed in crash en route to Disney World

Five members of family killed in crash en route to Disney World
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Five members of a Texas family were killed as they set off for a "dream trip" to Disney World when a 16-year-old boy apparently fell asleep at the wheel, causing the family's SUV to roll over, police said Thursday. Police charged the boy, who had a driver's license, with reckless driving. The dead included the driver's parents, primary-school teachers Michael and Trudi Hardman, and three of their children — Dakota Watson, 15, Adam Hardman, 7, and Kaci Hardman, 4.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.