Police haven’t said why SUV left road, killing 2 in shed

Family members grieve as they look at what is left of a room where Ivan Carlos and Brenda Aviliz were sleeping Wednesday morning, April 1, 2015, when an SUV veered from U.S. 41 striking their mobile home in Palmetto, Fla.'s Lone Oak Park, killing the couple and their unborn baby. Police say the 35-year-old driver was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening. (AP Photo/The Bradenton Herald, Grant Jefferies) Family members grieve as they look at what is left of a room where Ivan Carlos and Brenda Aviliz were sleeping Wednesday morning, April 1, 2015, when an SUV veered from U.S. 41 striking their mobile home in Palmetto, Fla.'s Lone Oak Park, killing the couple and their unborn baby. Police say the 35-year-old driver was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening. (AP Photo/The Bradenton Herald, Grant Jefferies)

By Associated Press April 2, 2015 2 min read

PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) – As authorities on Florida’s Gulf coast investigate the horrific fatal crash of careening SUV into a shed where two people were sleeping, they have yet to say what caused the driver to veer off the road.

Palmetto Police Chief Scott Tyler said the driver in Wednesday’s early morning crash is cooperating with investigators.

Ivan Carlos, 21, and his girlfriend, Brenda Avilez, 18, were killed. Avilez was nine months pregnant. Her unborn baby also died.

A relative said the couple had been using the shed as a makeshift bedroom, sleeping inside on a mattress and hoping to save money.

The SUV driver, 35-year-old Christian Crawford of Bradenton, was taken to a local hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening.