( CNN ) A dark intersection . A church van full of parishioners . And tragedy . That 's about all police in Glades County , Florida , had to work with early Monday , hours after a van with 18 people inside ran a stop sign , crossed a four-lane highway and plunged into a shallow water-filled ditch . Eight people died . Ten others , including a 4-year-old child , were injured , according to police . Investigators do n't know why it happened , Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Greg Bueno told CNN affiliate WPBF . The driver died , and police have n't been able to interview passengers yet . `` Our hearts go out to the families of the victims , '' Bueno said . `` It breaks your heart to see something like this happen . '' Some relatives of the crash victims , all of whom were from the Independent Haitian Assembly of God in Fort Pierce , gathered at the rural intersection Monday morning . Others went to the church . `` We 've lost a lot of family members , church family , '' Phillipe Dorce , who said he lost his father , told WPBF . `` All we can do is pray ( to ) God to help us out . Pray for us . It 's very sad for us . '' Linda Dolce told the news site TCPalm.com that her grandmother died in the crash . She 'd arrived from Haiti six years ago . `` She loved singing and helping people , '' TCPalm.com quoted her as saying . `` She was exciting ; she was the best lady to us . '' Laura Lochard told the site that her uncle died in the crash , leaving behind four children , the youngest of which is 16 , whom he brought to the United States from Haiti . He was like a father to her , too , she said . `` It 's never easy to lose a person , but I have to be strong , '' she told the site . `` I 'll never forget his smile . '' A pastor at the church , Sereste Doresma told CNN that parishioners had attended a revival in Fort Myers and had left Sunday afternoon . `` This is a very difficult day for us today , '' he said . The van apparently was traveling east on State Road 78 when it ran a stop sign at U.S. Highway 27 early Monday , authorities said . It then crossed all four lanes of U.S. 27 and stopped in a ditch that was partially filled with water . No one saw the accident on the rural stretch of roadway that 's frequented mostly by commercial traffic , Bueno said . One of the passengers flagged down a passing vehicle , whose driver called police , the trooper said . Police had to remove the seats of the van to remove passengers , Bueno said . Among other things , investigators are looking into the capacity of the van . It appeared to be rated for 16 passengers , Bueno said . Of the passengers , all were adults except for the 4-year-old , who was in stable condition at a hospital , Bueno said . Two of the adult passengers were in critical condition , he said . Passengers were being treated at four hospitals .
` ` We ' ve lost a lot of family members , our family , '' a man whose father died tells ` ` WPBF . Eight people are dead , 10 are injured after a church van crash in Florida early Monday . Investigators do n't know why the van ran a neon sign and plunged into a shallow canal .