Advanced Search
A 17-year-old Jupiter girl was killed early this morning in a one-car accident at Military Trail and Toney Penna Drive, Jupiter police said. Lynnae N. Copeland was traveling north on Military Trail in a 2001 Volkswagen Passat when she attempted to make a right turn onto Toney Penna Drive, according to officer Adam Brown, spokesman for the Jupiter Police Department. She lost control of the car and collided with a light pole. Copeland was transported to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where she died of her injuries.
A bicyclist was killed and an Orlando police officer was taken to a hospital after a crash Sunday evening.
The crash, involving a marked Orlando Police Department vehicle and an adult bicyclist, happened before 7:30 p.m. Sunday on South Kirkman Road near Pine Shadows, south of LB McLeod, according to police.
Police said the bicyclist, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The officer, identified as Isaias Rivera Montoyo, suffered minor injuries, was taken to a hospital. Montoyo was expected to be released, authorities said.
A 76-year-old Tampa woman died Saturday from injuries sustained in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 75.
Gloria Jean Portis was pronounced dead at the scene. She was a backseat passenger in the 1999 Pontiac Grand AM driven by 20-year-old Kalen Darell Guest of Tampa.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report Guest was heading north approaching the Fowler Ave. overpass when for unknown reasons the vehicle left the roadway. The car traveled into the center median where the left side of the vehicle collided with the guardrail.