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A 52-year-old woman was killed Monday in Boca Raton after an early-morning crash.
Around 4:40 a.m., the driver, Wendy Starr Smith, was heading east on Glades Road, approaching Encino Lane.
Her car left the road and struck a concrete utility pole at the southeast corner of the intersection. Smith died at the scene.
Investigators said impairment did not appear to be factor in the wreck.
An unexpected medical episode may have occurred, or the driver may have fallen asleep while driving. No other vehicles were involved.
Three people were taken to southern Palm Beach County hospitals after being injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday night in suburban Boca Raton, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said.
The crash happened at about 6 p.m. near Glades Road and State Road 7, said a Fire & Rescue spokesman. Several people were found trapped in the vehicles, and firefighters had to use extrication tools to get them out
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One person suffered severe injures and was taken as a trauma alert to Delray Medical Center. The other two people were taken to West Boca Medical Center.
Four people were hospitalized after sustaining injuries in a vehicle rollover accident in Boca Raton Friday night, a spokesman for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. Three of the patients were taken to Delray Medical Center with traumatic injuries, and one of the patients was transported to West Boca Medical Center with less serious injuries, Borroto said. The rollover accident happened around 10:43 p.m. in the 9200 block of Southwest 8th Street in Isles of Boca Dunes in Boca Raton. When rescue crews arrived, they found a three-vehicle accident with one vehicle on its side.