US mother and her three-year-old daughter may have been gassed to death in car by faulty battery
By Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com 04:46 BST five Oct 2016, updated 14:01 BST five Oct two thousand sixteen
- Latifa Lincoln, 45, and her three-year-old daughter, Maksmilla, were found dead alongside Florida’s Turnpike in their two thousand six Porsche Cayenne
- Medical examiners struggled for four months to determine what caused their deaths on May 13
- Lab and urine tests confirmed that they inhaled excessive amounts of hydrogen sulfide
- Investigators are now attempting to determine whether the gas was leaked from the Porsche Cayenne car battery
- Unlike most other vehicles, the Porsche Cayenne’s battery is located under the driver’s seat rather than underneath the fetish mask
The driver of a Porsche Cayenne and her daughter who mysteriously died four months ago on a Florida highway suffered from excessive amounts of a flammable gas that may caused by a faulty car battery.
Investigators probing the deaths of Latifa Lincoln, 45, and her three-year-old daughter, Maksmilla Lincoln, said that the two breathed in large quantities of hydrogen sulfide, a clear gas whose smell bears a resemblance to that of rotten eggs.
Lincoln and her daughter were found dead inwards their two thousand six Porsche Cayenne along Florida’s Turnpike in Osceola County just south of Orlando, on May 13, WESH two reported.
The effect of the hydrogen sulfide was so strong that it compelled very first responders who arrived at the scene to step back.
Three of them even had difficulty breathing, WESH two reported.
‘It’s unprecedented,’ said Dr. Gary Utz, the assistant medical examiner in Orlando.
‘I haven’t been able to find another case.’
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Urine tests conducted on the victims confirmed that hydrogen sulfide was the cause of death.
The battery of the Porsche Cayenne is located under the driver’s seat, while in most other vehicles it is underneath the spandex hood.
The Porsche Cayenne was bought by Lincoln from a nearby dealership.
‘We feel sorry for the lady,’ Ron Telleysh, the finance manager at the Auto Express dealership in East Orlando that sold her the car, told WESH.
‘She used to come in here all the time with her little daughter.’
Safety records indicate that the car was never involved in a crash.
Investigators are now attempting to determine if the car battery is to blame. Utz said that he will seek to gather more information before going so far as to officially blame the car battery.