Malana Henderson is pictured with her father, Lucio Vazquez. (Lucio Vazquez)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The teenage girl killed in a crash Monday on Jacksonville’s Northside was about to be a senior at Callahan High School, her father told News4Jax.
Lucio Vazquez said his 17-year-old daughter, Malana Henderson, dreamed of going to the University of Georgia and wanted to become a doctor.
“She was very outgoing. She loved her siblings unconditionally,” Vazquez said. “She had a heart of gold really.”
Henderson was a passenger in a Honda Accord that the Florida Highway Patrol said collided with a semitruck about 3:30 p.m. Monday at Dunn Avenue and New Kings Road. Troopers said the car was traveling south on New Kings Road when it turned left onto Dunn Avenue in front of the tractor-trailer, which was traveling north on New Kings Road.