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One person was transported from the scene by Trauma Hawk helicopter after a crash in Royal Palm Beach on Thursday morning.
The wreck occurred at Okeechobee Boulevard and State Road 7 around 5:30 a.m.
Some lanes were closed earlier this morning but all were back open by 6:30 a.m.
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 27-year-old from Pompano Beach was seriously injured when he crashed his motorcycle Thursday night on State Road 7 west of Boca Raton, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s officials report this morning.
The crash happened at 6:24 p.m. Investigators said Philip Hegarty was northbound on SR 7 and “not paying attention” to traffic stopped ahead of him and when he hit the brakes in panic, his motorcycle flipped throwing him to the road, where he slid toward the car ahead of him. The motorcycle then came down on top of him.
Hegerty was taken to Delray Medical Center for treatment.
A helicopter crashed at the North County Airport on Thursday afternoon, but no one was injured, according to officials. Firefighters were dispatched to the airport off Beeline Highway at 11600 Aviation Road about 1:45 p.m. The helicopter suffered a hard landing, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s spokeswoman. When rescue crews arrived, the helicopter was on its side and all of the occupants were out unharmed, said a Palm Beach County Fire Rescue spokesman. The Fire Dept. did not have information about the type of helicopter or who was on board.