Victims in deadly limo crash had ties to North Country

The National Transportation Safety Board is calling a limo crash in Upstate New York Saturday the deadliest transportation accident in the U.S. since 2009.

A limo driver went through an intersection, hitting two pedestrians and slamming into a parked SUV before careening into a ditch. Twenty people were killed -- 18 inside the limo and two pedestrians. Several of the victims have ties to the North Country.

Allison, Amy, Abby, and Mary King were sisters that -- before moving to Amsterdam, New York, as kids -- lived in the Clinton County town of Chazy Lake, where the were remembered for playing community soccer.

Three of the crash victims were SUNY-Plattsburgh alumni. Allison King graduated in 2010 with a speech communications degree. Amy Steenburg -- formerly Amy King -- graduated with a psychology degree in 2006. She was on the women's soccer team. Their brother-in-law, Adam Jackson, was a transfer student from 2005-2006. Amanda Rivenberg also graduated from SUNY-Plattsburgh. She received her bachelors in social work in 2011.

"I just don't know what to say, said Barbara Douglas, an aunt to the four King. Douglas drove down to Schohaire from Dannemora on Sunday. "I came to see my brother, but I wanted to see where it was. I wanted to say goodbye to them and I wanted to get some flowers and place them."

Like many, Douglas is mourning, including many in New York's North Country. In the past 24 hours, a fundraiser on Facebook collected over $100,000 in donations from thousands.

Jamie Elizabeth created the fundraiser and wrote that she's known the King family her whole life.

"When someone speaks of a parent's worst nightmare -- only one thing comes to mind," Elizabeth wrote on Facebook. She said the family not only lost one child, but all four of their daughters and their husbands. They left children and pets behind.

"They were fun loving girls -- would do anything for you," Douglas said.

Shares and comments were pouring in from all over the state -- and across the country.