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Friday, February 21, 2014
A 69-year-old Manatee County woman died Friday afternoon from injuries sustained in a parking lot accident. Susan Roberts Murphy was pronounced dead at the scene just after 4:30 p.m. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report Murphy has just finished shopping at BJ’s Wholesale Club and was loading items into the front passenger side of her 2001 Chrysler Town and Country van when the vehicle started moving in reverse for unknown reasons. Murphy fell under the vehicle and was struck on the head and body by the front right tire.
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Three people are dead and five others have been hospitalized after a woman backed her car into a group of pedestrians outside a Florida clubhouse. The Florida Highway Patrol says the accident happened Sunday in Bradenton, about 45 miles south of Tampa. Police says a woman, later identified as Doreen Landstra 79, backed her car in a parking lot at the Sugar Creek Country Club, where church services were taking place.