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Five people have been injured, three seriously, in a rollover crash on I-95 near the Lantana Road exit, said a spokesman for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. Rescue crews responding to the 10:17 a.m. crash found that several people had been ejected from their vehicles. An initial report indicated that one person may had been ejected onto the Tri-Rail tracks, causing the rail service to be temporarily suspended. No one was found lying on the tracks, and a short time later Tri-Rail service was resumed.
A man injured in a motorcycle crash Saturday in Jupiter has died. Jeffrey J. Guiffre, 61, of Jupiter, was turning left onto Military Trail from Dakota Drive at about 4:30 p.m. when Jupiter Police say he lost control of his motorcycle and tumbled onto the street. When firefighters arrived, they found him lying motionless on the street, in the town’s Abacoa section. He was airlifted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where he died of his injuries.
49-year-old Kyle Marc Aaron Matteson of Jensen Beach died Saturday after crashing the 1999 Yamaha ATV he was driving. Matteson was traveling northbound along the west side of the Florida East Coast Railroad's right of way in Jensen Beach. According to FHP, he steered the ATV sharply to the left and in doing so the vehicle overturned. Matteson was trapped underneath the vehicle. The time of the crash is unknown.
A tractor-trailer hauling molasses crashed in a rural area of Palm Beach County on Friday morning, injuring the driver.
At 5:41 a.m., emergency crews responded to the wreck in the 1000 block of County Rd. 827A.
The semi was upside down with the trailer partially in the canal, and the driver still inside the cab.
Firefighters had to cut the driver from the cab and transported him to Delray Medical Center by Trauma Hawk.
Officials said there was a minor fuel leak, but it was contained, and none entered a nearby canal.
A portion of Interstate 95 North in Delray Beach is closed Friday after a chemical leak.
At noon., two right lanes are closed near the Linton Boulevard exit. Traffic is slowed to about 30 mph and backed up less than a mile.
According to the Delray Beach Fire Department, a 55-gallon drum being hauled by a trailer was leaking polystyrene.
Delray Beach Fire Rescue said the spill is not serious or dangerous.
A two-year-old girl was struck and killed by a car at the 600 block of Angler Drive in the Delray Shores community within Delray Beach on Friday.
Initially the driver involved in the crash left the scene, but returned and is currently cooperating with the on-going traffic homicide investigation.
As this is an ongoing investigation, the driver has not yet been charged with any crimes.