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A vehicle hit and killed a black bear on a two-lane roadway north of Interstate 75 on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in the Florida Everglades, and three people who had gone to the driver's aid were then struck and killed by another vehicle. When the first car, a Cadillac Escalade, collided with the animal, a second vehicle pulled over at the scene, and then a Mercedes crashed into the people who stopped to help. Some of the injured were transported by air from the remote crash site. The bear died. Four critically injured patients were airlifted to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale.