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VIDEO: Restaurant Owner Recounts Scene of Fatal Crash

The owner of the Corner Clock Restaurant on 23 Mile and Hayes Road holds back tears as he recounts the horrifying moments after a crash Tuesday that killed a 3-year-old girl and a woman suspected of drunken driving.

A woman and a 3-year-old girl died following an .

Moments after patrons at the on 23 Mile and Hayes roads in Shelby Township witnessed an Oldsmobile driven by a Sterling Heights woman crash into a minivan at the intersection around 8:45 p.m., Dan Goad, the owner of the restaurant, sprang into action.

Goad, a Shelby Township resident, couldn't hold back tears as he recounted the horrifying scene.

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"The van was full of a family. ... The mom was trapped in the front and the kids in the backseat were hurt bad," he said.

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