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Friday, October 31, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLPolice are looking for a hit-and-run driver who killed a woman in Sarasota Friday morning. Joyce Niemeier Sanders, 74, was pronounced deceased at the site of the accident. Sanders and her husband were walking on the sidewalk on Honore Avenue near Palmer Ranch Parkway when sprinklers came on. They moved over to the bicycle lane, and that's when Sanders was struck. Authorities are looking for a brown or gold Ford pickup truck, model year 2010 or later, that will have right front-end damage.
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Friday, September 19, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLHarrell was airlifted to Blake Medical Center in Bradenton just after 2 am. after the incident, which occurred near the intersection of Higel Ave. and Cedar Park Circle. Fishburn was not injured, and he is facing one count of DUI with bodily injury and one count of DUI with property damage.
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Monday, May 26, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA man has died after a wrong way driver in Sarasota, Florida plowed into a taxi filled with passengers from Acushnet.
James Elias, 51–year-old, was one of four passengers in the taxi.
The other passengers, who are also from Acushnet, were taken to a Sarasota Hospital.
Two are still receiving treatment at a local hospital.
The driver of the car that hit the taxi is facing several charges including a felony for leaving the scene of an accident.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLHours after a hit-and-run accident Thursday morning left a 13-year-old bicylist with serious injuries, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper asked the man identified as the driver who left the scene to turn himself in.
Instead, the driver hung up the phone, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The FHP identified that man Monday as Donald Ray Thomas, 20, of Goodrich Avenue in Sarasota. The FHP said it plans to seek an arrest warrant for Thomas for leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury.
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Friday, April 18, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA Sarasota woman who was killed over the weekend when a speeding car crashed into her home, had complained to the city about the intersection near her home before.
The tragic chain of events started at around 3 a.m. Saturday when Sarasota Police got a 911 call. They say 24-year-old Jakeilah Weeks had broken into the home of her ex-boyfriend, Donta Carswell, Jr., beat him up and stole money from the home.
Carswell’s mother was the person who called 911. In recordings of the 911 call, you can hear Carswell and Weeks screaming in the background.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA Lutz man killed in a crash has been identified as the victim of a single-car crash on Interstate 75 early Friday.
Nicholas P. Marsicano, 59, was driving a 2004 Chevy Venture northbound on the interstate through Sarasota County near Border Road when the accident occurred about 4:20 a.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Marsicano lost control of the Chevy after experiencing a medical event near the Border Road overpass, a FHP news release stated.
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Friday, February 14, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLAn unidentified motor scooter driver died Saturday night from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash in Sarasota County.
The incident occurred just after 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of Clark Rd. and Honore Ave. The scooter operator, who was not wearing a helmet, died at the scene.