CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Wednesday night, Pastor Raymond Johnson said he is trying to stay strong after losing his daughter-in-law in a crash that claimed a total of five lives in Clay County.
Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol are still trying to determine what exactly happened Tuesday, when a driver crossed the center lines of State Road 21 near Camp Blanding crashing head-on into another car.
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A total of five adults died, including the Raymond Johnson's daughter-in-law Chelsea Johnson, a 24-year-old from Florahome, with the only survivors being two very young children.
The aftershocks of the tragic crash are still being felt all over the area in the crash that troopers said was surprising in how many people died.
Read: 5 adults die in Clay County head-on crash on State Road 21
The two small children who were in one of the vehicles and survived are in Wolfson's Chilrden's Hospital downtown with relatives. They're still in critical condition and their parents did not survive.
Relatives of Chelsea Johnson, who was the single passenger in the other car, are planning her funeral now.
"She just touched everybody's life. She just laughed all the time. Smiling all the time, loved people. It's hard to understand how things like this can happen," Pam Johnson, Chelsea Johnson's mother in law said.
Raymond and Pam Johnson said their son is taking some alone time tonight as he continues coping with the loss of his wife.
"We've tried to keep him close to us over these past hours and think he needs those times to help us through grieving process," Raymond Johnson said. "She was a sweetheart, we watched her grow up from a little thing."
Stopping by the couples' church where Raymond Johnson is the pastor, the news of his daughter-in-law's death has hit the small town church hard.
"I would like to say I'm the rock of Gibraltar. But even pastors will ask the question why. We just have to know God has a plan, we don't see it, we don't understand it," Raymond Johnson said.
The family said Chelsea Johnson's funeral will be held in Palatka, but they haven't determined a specific time and day yet.
For the two small children that lost their parents in the accident, Daniel and Madison Eden, a GoFundMe account has been set up at gofundme.com/x83kk78.