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A 24-year-old Broward County man has been identified as the driver in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a 53-year-old bicyclist Friday morning, city police said. Traffic homicide investigators said Jeffrey Camenzuli of Coral Springs was driving a 2013 Kia shortly before 5 a.m. when he struck a man riding a bicycle. The crash happened in the 6300 block of Glades Road, near Jog Road, police said. The injured bicyclist was identified as Mario Sgroia of Boca Raton. He was rushed to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries.
An 87-year-old woman died Thursday night after injuries from a car accident that afternoon.
Pricilla S. Nitzberg of Boynton Beach was pronounced dead around 11:30 p.m., at Delray Medical Center more than eight hours after the crash. The accident happened at the intersection of South Military Trail and Pipers Glen Blvd. in Delray Beach.
Nitzberg attempted to make a left turn from North Military Trail onto Pipers Glen when another car headed south on Military Trail hit into the passenger side of her car. Ana Araujo-Gabaldon, the driver of the other car, had minor injuries.
All lanes are now open after a fatal motorcycle crash snarled southbound traffic on Interstate 95 for more than three hours.
One person was killed when a motorcycle collided with a car on southbound I-95, just north of the Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard exit, said a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash left traffic backed up to Blue Heron Boulevard.
Authorites were still trying tonight to contact family of the person who died and have not released the person’s name.
Three people were hurt after two vehicles and a train hauling sugar cane were involved in a crash Tuesday morning, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.
The wreck occurred at about 8:17 a.m. in the 35500 block of State Route 80 near Hatton Highway.
When rescue crews arrived, one vehicle was still on the tracks and all railway traffic was stopped for safety.
Seven people were evaluated by firefighters, and three were transported to hospitals for further treatment.
A woman was flown to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries after a three-car wreck in suburban Lake Worth, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said.
The wreck happened just before 7 p.m. in Lake Worth Road’s 7000 block, between Jog Road and Florida’s Turnpike, said a Fire Rescue spokesman.
One car struck a pole and another a guard rail.
The woman was flown to Delray Medical Center by Trauma Hawk.
The Florida Highway Patrol arrested a driver in an overnight hit-and-run crash on Interstate 95 South. A driver hit a car at about 1:15 a.m. Monday on I-95, just north of Linton Boulevard in Delray Beach. FHP said no one was seriously hurt, but the truck connected to the crash was later found. The driver was arrested and charged with DUI and fleeing the scene of an accident. FHP has not released the name of the person facing charges.
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.