I75 Car vs Alligator Crash Leaves Woman, Gator Injured
While driving along Florida’s Interstate 75 a female driver suddenly saw a nine foot alligator cross in front of her. With no time to react, she hit the gator, causing the 34 year old driver to lose control of her vehicle. Her SUV flipped over multiple times before coming to a rest on its side. Luckily, she only sustained minor injuries, including bruises and a cut under her right eye. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the alligator’s injuries were more serious. Read the rest »
Two Dead When Driver Crashes into Kissimmee Building
Two Orlando area teenagers were killed Thursday after a vehicle crashed into the Kissimmee shopping center. According to local police, the Florida automobile accident happened on State Road 192 at the intersection with 1906 W. Vine Street, just east of Thacker Avenue. Based on the police report, the driver was traveling east on SR 192 when he lost control of the vehicle, causing it to slam into the shopping center building. Read the rest »
One Killed in Orlando Crash between Mercedes-Benz and Light Pole
East of Orlando, at Colonial Drive and Old Cheney, an unnamed 47-year-old man was driving a 1999 Mercedes-Benz at around 3:00 on Monday morning when he lost control and crashed into a light pole. After the collision with the pole, the car was propelled into a nearby auto mall, spraying debris into the eight cars parked there and damaging them all. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the left side of the Mercedes impacted the pole with enough force to break the car into two pieces, both of which then careened into the auto mall’s parking lot. Read the rest »
Manhole on Orlando’s Illinois Street Still Not Repaired
It seems that a manhole cover located along the 1200 block of Orlando’s Illinois Street has torn the bottom off of yet another vehicle. This latest incident happened to a woman named Shirley Wang as she was navigating her Mini Cooper down Illinois Street. She reports that there were a few garbage cans placed further out in the street than expected and she maneuvered her car around them. Unfortunately, in her attempt at redirection, she drove her car directly over a manhole cover that many people claim to be far higher off of the asphalt than is safe. Wang said that she heard a loud scraping and grating sound along the bottom of her car. When she exited the vehicle to check on the situation, she saw that her transmission as well as a few other parts of her vehicle had been ripped off by the manhole. Read the rest »
Orlando rear end collision leaves two dead, two injured
The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) reports that two people were killed and two injured during a two vehicle crash that happened in Orange County near Orlando, Florida. According to the FHP, the accident happened early Thursday at around 2:30 am near North Dean and Buck roads. Although the investigation continues and little details are known, it has been confirmed that one vehicle was stopped at a red light when it was rear-ended by the second vehicle. In total, five people were involved in the crash, although it is unclear how many were in each vehicle. Read the rest »
Driver Killed After Striking Tree near Orlando
A 25 year old male from Apopka, Florida died recently after crashing his car into a tree. The crash happened near Orlando, in Orange County. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the automobile accident happened just after midnight on Colonial and Semon drives. The victim was driving his 2015 Nissan Altima west on State Road 50. When he attempted to change lanes to pass another vehicle, he lost control of his car, causing it to travel down into the embankment, strike a tree and overturn. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Read the rest »
One Dead in Fiery Tampa Car Crash
A fatal crash on the east side of Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa, Florida last week blocked traffic both direction for hours. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the rush hour car accident took place in the southbound lanes near the Kennedy Boulevard exit. Read the rest »
Wrong-Way Accident on I-95 Kills Five
A wrong-way accident in the early morning hours on Miami’s I-95 has claimed five lives. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that at approximately 12:48 am a white Ford pickup driven by a 23-year-old female from California entered the highway southbound in the northbound traffic lanes at the Miami Garden exit.
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Elderly Man Collides with Vehicle in Orlando Wrong-Way Crash
On Monday, October 19th, 2015, 84-year-old Porfirio Perez of Orlando was driving south in the northbound lanes of State Road 417. Despite attempts by a Seminole County Sheriff to alert Perez to his error and stop him from driving in the wrong direction by flashing his lights and blaring his sirens, the front corner of Perez’s 2005 PT Cruiser hit the front end of 55-year-old Kevin Cannon’s 2005 Lexus. Cannon was also carrying a 15-year-old passenger, Sean Cannon. Both drivers involved in the crash were taken to a nearby hospital for serious injuries, while the teenage passenger was (luckily) taken in for only minor injuries.
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No Resolution Yet in Pensacola Crash
A traffic accident that occurred in May still has yet to be closed, the result of an ongoing investigation that is taking months. According to officials, on that day, a Pensacola man driving a Toyota Tacoma truck left the road and crashed his vehicle into the home of a 52-year-old woman. The woman died as a result of her injuries. At this time, officials have released no information as to whether there was any trace of drugs or alcohol in the man’s system, though they do state that they have sent toxicology samples to the University of Florida for lab tests.
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