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Rose Lucarell, seriously injured, taken to hospital, Amber Lynn Beckwith, 26, Ariel Young, 22, arrested on multiple charges, after a road-rage incident on 34th Street in St. Petersburg.

Date: 
Monday, April 21, 2014
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
Two St. Pete women are accused in a violent road rage attack against another woman. St. Petersburg Police say it happened around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday. Rose Lucarell was driving south on 34th Street and had to honk her horn at the women's vehicle to prevent an accident, according to a SPPD spokesperson. Amber Lynn Beckwith, 26, and Ariel Young, 22, then pulled their car next to Lucarell, yelled at her and gestured at her with their middle fingers. Lucarell rolled down her window and asked them to stop. Police say Young threw a water bottle at her.

Michael B. Ballard, 24, killed after his motorcycle is struck by car driven by Casandra Renita Hafford, 47, who was arrested for DUI, at the intersection of Belleair Road and Missouri Avenue near Clearwater

Date: 
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL

A woman involved in a fatal motorcycle accident this weekend is in jail Monday morning, according to the Clearwater police report. She admitted she had been drinking alcohol before the crash.

Casandra Renita Hafford, 47, of Clearwater, was turning into Belleair Road from Missouri Avenue in her 2001 Buick Century when her car and a 2007 Kawasaki motorcycle collided.

The motorcyclist, Michael B. Ballard, 24, died at the hospital. He was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, police said.

One person killed, after his motorcycle collides with a truck, driven by Robert Smith, 47, at the intersection of Belcher Road and 118th Avenue in Pinellas Park.

Date: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL

A deadly crash between a lawn truck and a motorcycle shut down Belcher Road on Wednesday night.

Pinellas Park police officers say around 8:19 p.m., a motorcycle was going south on Belcher approaching 118th Avenue. A commercial lawn truck towing a large white trailer was going northbound on Belcher.

Witnesses say the truck had just made a westbound turn, when the light turned red. According to witnesses, the motorcycle ran the red light, resulting in the crash.

The motorcycle rider was pronounced dead at the scene.