The families of two teenage girls, who died in a Florida car crash, claimed that authorities misidentified the girls and removed the organs from other girl's body. The families of the two girls have since filed for lawsuits.

On July 29, 2019, the two girls, 18-year-old Deleigha Gibson and 15-year-old Samara Cook were killed in the Florida accident. The car they were driving crashed into a utility pole in Escambia County, after swerving back and forth from one lane to another. The Florida Highway Patrol says that the accident took place around 1.30. a.m., and at the time of the accident, there were four people inside the car.

Gibson and Cook were found dead at the crash site. The other two people involved in the accident survived the crash and were taken to the hospital. Also, reports suggest that alcohol wasn’t a cause behind the accident.

Ranada Cooks, the mother of Samara, filed a lawsuit claiming that the Florida Highway Patrol incorrectly tagged Gibson as her daughter, even though they found Gibson’s identification at the scene. The suit, filed Thursday in Escambia County Circuit Court, names the county medical’s office, Florida Highway Patrol, and the two funeral homes that took the bodies. A separate lawsuit was filed by the Gibson Family.

"Samara Cooks and Deleigha Gibson were different ages and had different heights, weights, and physical appearances," NBC News quoted from Cooks’ lawsuit. Further the lawsuit also said that Gibson was also an organ donor and both the girls were black. The suit also alleges that even the coroner’s and county medical examiner’s office did not catch the error, and extracted organs from the body of Samara Cooks, who wasn’t an organ donor.

"Such unauthorized invasion of her daughter's body has caused Plaintiff, Ranada Cooks, extreme stress and anxiety," the lawsuit said.

When the funeral home was alerted about the mix-up, they tried to switch the bodies without the knowledge of the families, Cooks said.

"I just really wish that they treated her with dignity. Let her go out like a lady," Ranada Cooks told NBC News. "I think they failed our girls.

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