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Brothers and toddler die in Rhea County crash

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photo Accident investigators used orange spray paint to mark points along the skidding track of a fatal crash on Back Valley Road in Dayton, Tenn., Sunday.

DAYTON, Tenn. – Nichole Sink sat at her son’s bedside at Children’s Hospital at Erlanger on Sunday night, listening to 8-month-old Caydan burble.

“At least I didn’t lose everybody,” she said.

Caydan was the only survivor of a Sunday crash that took the lives of Sink’s fiancé, Michael Crawley; their other son, Logan, 4, and Michael’s 17-year-old brother, Christopher Hunter Johnson.

Sink wasn’t in the car when it left the road, hit a brick mailbox post and turned over in the 2900 block of Back Valley Road in Dayton.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating the crash, according to Rhea County dispatchers. The THP did not release any information Sunday.