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A lawyer from Kansas is dead after the water scooter he was operating collided with a motorboat in southwest Florida.
The crash happened Sunday afternoon in Charlotte County.
A Charlotte County Fire and EMS spokeswoman told the stated that 54-year-old Lee Hollis of Leawood, Kan., died Monday. Doctors amputated one of his legs on Sunday afternoon.
Two people were killed early Sunday in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 98 North in Lakeland.
The incident occurred at approximately 3:15 a.m. on a two-lane stretch between Rockridge and Socrum Loop roads.
According to a Polk County Sheriff’s Office report a 2006 Toyota Scion driven by 19-year-old Eric Rocco Russo of Lakeland was traveling south approaching the intersection of Big Cypress Blvd.
A 24-year-old Riverview man died early Saturday from injuries sustained in a three-vehicle crash at the intersection of US 41 and Pembroke Rd. in Hillsborough County.
Ryan L. Leguizamon was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report the incident occurred at approximately 12:30 a.m. Investigators say a 2014 semi pulling a trailer was heading east on Pembroke Rd. when the driver attempted to make a left turn onto northbound US 41.
The right and center lanes of Interstate 95 Southbound in Yulee were closed for nearly 10 hours Saturday morning while officials cleaned up after a morning crash involving a tractor trailer.
Around 6:00 a.m. Saturday morning a semi carrying produce crashed in Nassau County, leaving debris all over the interstate near mile marker 371.
The Florida Highway Patrol said around 11:00 a.m. Saturday morning they expected lanes to be closed for several more hours and they were closed until after 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
23-year-old Jesus Jose Gaspar of Lake Worth was killed Saturday night after being struck by a car as he lay in the street.
Gaspar was laying in the westbound lane of 7th Avenue North approximately 20 feet east of the CRX train crossing.
His head was facing north and his feet were facing south.
24-year-old Matthew Ecker of Lake Worth was traveling west on 7th Avenue North approaching the rise to the CRX crossing.
One man died and a woman was injured after a boat crashed into a Dania Beach bridge piling Friday, authorities said.
Officials identified the victims as 50-year-old Marcella Hewett and 58-year-old David Duda on Saturday.
An 18-foot-long Mariah model boat struck a piling on the Old Griffin Road bridge, with Duda dying as a result of the collision, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman said.
A 67-year-old man was hit and killed while walking across U.S. 17 in Putnam County Thursday evening.
The man's identity was not released, pending next-of-kin notification.
Carolyn Jones, 62, of Crescent City, was traveling southbound on U.S. 17 around 6 p.m. She hit the man while he walked across the highway at the intersection of Horse Landing Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol report.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
FHP did not say whether Jones would face any charges.
A 32-year-old bicyclist was struck by a van and killed Thursday evening in Putnam County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
State troopers said Nathan Stuckey, of Georgetown, was riding southbound on County Road 309, south of Whitey Lane, within the lane of travel about 6:10 p.m.
Troopers said Stuckey had no lighting equipment or a safety helmet, and because of the dark roadway, the driver of the van, 47-year-old Pamela Robertson, of Crescent City, failed to see him until it was too late.
A Metairie man died after his 12-foot boat capsized in the waters off Pensacola, Fla. The Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say Brent Keller, 24, and a companion, Brent Wilson, 20, of Pensacola, floated for hours after waves inundated their boat Thursday about 4:15 p.m.
A spokesman for the wildlife commission stated that both men put on life jackets. But no other boats were in the area, and they had no flares or radio equipment.