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Rory Fitzpatrick Kiernan, 40 of Stevensville, Maryland was killed after being ejected from his motor scooter and onto Florida Turnpike, south of Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, Florida where one vehicle struck him from behind and he was hit by at least one other vehicle. The accident is still being investigated.
Two elderly people died, and two others were injured in a car crash Saturday night, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.
The accident happened at the intersection of Lake Ida Road and Jog Road in Delray Beach.
Initial information indicated that a vehicle driven by 88-year-old Jacob Sahl failed to yield to oncoming traffic and struck a car driven by Robert Santini of Buffalo Grove Illinois.
Sahl's passenger, also 88-years-old, died at the scene of the crash.
Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle who investigators with the Delray Beach Police Department said hit a 20-year-old woman while she was rollerblading along Atlantic Avenue. Detectives said the collision between car and person happened on Tuesday morning around 1:00 a.m. on the west side of the Intracoastal bridge. Witnesses said while taking a breather on the Atlantic Avenue intra-coastal bridge with friends, Bucala was hit from behind by a car. The driver then sped off in the direction of downtown.
A deadly crash involving a Tri-Rail train and a vehicle shut down traffic at Linton Boulevard and Congress Avenue in Delray Beach Thursday.
At 10:45 a-m, northbound train P618 struck a car at the Linton Blvd crossing, according to a Tri-Rail spokeswoman.
According to Delray Beach Fire Rescue, the driver was heading eastbound on Linton and was the only passenger in the car. The driver died at the scene.
At least seven Tri-Rail passengers complained of minor injuries and were transported for treatment, fire rescue said.
A multiple car crash on I-95 Saturday night in Delray Beach injured six people, four of whom were hurt seriously enough to go to the hospital, and was followed almost immediately by a second crash that had rescuers returning to the scene. Two people were injured in the second crash and taken to the hospital in stable condition. According to Delray Beach Fire Rescue, the first crash happened at 11:11 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-95 near Linton Boulevard.
Three people were injured in a four vehicle crash in Delray Beach Tuesday, according to Delray Beach Fire Rescue. Two of the vehicles rolled over as a result of the crash which happened around 11:15 a.m. on West Linton Boulevard. Investigators are not sure what caused the collision. They say three people in the vehicles that rolled over were hospitalized in stable condition. No one was seriously hurt in the other two vehicles.
An 87-year-old woman died Thursday night after injuries from a car accident that afternoon.
Pricilla S. Nitzberg of Boynton Beach was pronounced dead around 11:30 p.m., at Delray Medical Center more than eight hours after the crash. The accident happened at the intersection of South Military Trail and Pipers Glen Blvd. in Delray Beach.
Nitzberg attempted to make a left turn from North Military Trail onto Pipers Glen when another car headed south on Military Trail hit into the passenger side of her car. Ana Araujo-Gabaldon, the driver of the other car, had minor injuries.
The Florida Highway Patrol arrested a driver in an overnight hit-and-run crash on Interstate 95 South. A driver hit a car at about 1:15 a.m. Monday on I-95, just north of Linton Boulevard in Delray Beach. FHP said no one was seriously hurt, but the truck connected to the crash was later found. The driver was arrested and charged with DUI and fleeing the scene of an accident. FHP has not released the name of the person facing charges.
A 79-year-old woman from suburban Delray Beach died in a three-car crash less than a mile from her home Thursday afternoon, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s officials report this morning.
The crash happened just before 3 p.m. at Linton Boulevard and Las Verdes Way. Leona Goldsmith was a passenger in a Volkswagen headed west on Linton Boulevard when the driver of an eastbound Toyota attempted a left turn onto Las Verdes and failed to yield to the oncoming car Goldsmith was in, according to traffic homicide investigators.
A woman died when she drove off the road and into a Delray Beach canal on Friday, after heavy rains caused flooding which concealed the edge of the road and body of water, authorities said.
The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office was investigating the incident at Via Flora and West Atlantic Avenue.
The woman died at the scene.
Heavy rains and flooding closed roads and schools and destroyed several cars and homes in Palm Beach County Friday.