Family and friends are mourning the woman killed in a wrong-way driving crash in Fort Worth

FORT WORTH — We learn more about two of the people who were in there Traffic accident on Loop 820 on Sunday that killed five people.

Evan Ranallo and Chelsea Cook were driving home early Sunday morning on Loop 820. Ranallo plays guitar and his band had performed a few hours earlier. They were almost home when disaster struck.

“They were about a mile from their exit and were hit head-on, the car was going the wrong way,” said Laurel Summerfield, Chelsea Cook’s mother.

Fort Worth police say a wrong-way driver in a Ford Focus struck Ranallo and Cook’s pickup head-on. Ranallo survived but underwent multiple surgeries and remains at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth. Kok died on the spot. Summerfield remains by her daughter’s fiancé’s side as he recovers from his surgeries.

“It just feels unfair, very unfair,” Summerfield said. “She was such a bright light, anyone who knew her will tell you. She was just the biggest personality, totally outgoing, she had been a theater kid. She just had so much more to do.”

The couple was just starting their life together. Ranallo suggested cooking in New Mexico just weeks before the crash.

“Even before they were engaged, she was like a sister to us. She was such a light in our family and she gave us so much joy and laughter,” said Rachel Ranallo, Evans’ sister. “It was hard and I’m even more heartbroken for Evan because that was the love of his life.”

Ranallo and Cook’s friends and family are coming together to support each other during this tragedy.

“You know, a promise that our family made to Chelsea is that we’re not going to curl up in a ball and give up and let this ruin us,” Summerfield said.

The families are also grappling with the reality that they may never know why that driver went the wrong way on Loop 820. A family of four, including two children, also died in the crash.

“We made some assumptions like everyone else that these people were drunk or very young and we were really shocked to find out that it was a family with two minors. That certainly made the whole thing worse in a way,” said Summer field.

Fort Worth police are still working to determine what caused the driver to enter the highway and go in the wrong direction.

The families now hope their tragedy will be a reminder for other drivers.

“Be careful, make the right decisions, think about what you can do. It can affect not only your family, but many other families,” Summerfield said.

Evan’s band “So Long Good Night” will hold a benefit concert with all proceeds going to the families of Ranallo and Cook. The concert will take place on December 14 in Hurst.