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Nine people, including one with serious injuries, were taken to area hospitals this afternoon after a Palm Tran bus was struck from behind by a dump trunk, a spokesman for West Palm Beach Fire Rescue said.
The crash happened at around 4:30 p.m. near 45th Street and Broadway. It resulted in minor damage to the bus and the truck, said a Fire Rescue spokesman.
Those injured were taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center, Good Samaritan Hospital and West Palm Hospital. Eight had minor injuries, the fire dept. said.
One person flown to Delray Medical Center on Monday night after being injured in a motorcycle crash in suburban Lake Worth, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said.
The crash happened just after 8:30 p.m. near Lyons and Lantana roads. Two cars that were trying to avoid the motorcycle were involved in a subsequent collision, said a Fire Rescue spokesman.
The occupants of those vehicles were not injured, he said.
Two people are dead and three are in the hospital after a driver lost control of his car on Interstate 95 and slammed into a tree just north of Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard Sunday night, Florida Highway Patrol reports.
The crash happened about 10:47 p.m. Jean Claude Denasty, 55, was behind the wheel of a 2009 Toyota Corolla when it crashed. His front seat passenger, Deada Denasty, 45, died at the scene.
Three passengers ages 50 to 66 were in the backseat. The driver and the three backseat passengers were all taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center with serious injuries.
Boca Raton city police are investigating a crash that occurred between a pickup and a Tri-Rail commuter bus that broke down Monday evening, a department spokeswoman said.
The crash happened at at about 7 p.m. on Military Trail, just south of Spanish River Boulevard. Traffic homicide investigators have been called to the scene, which is standard practice for all crashes involving serious injury, said Officer Sandra Boonenberg, spokeswoman for Boca Raton police.
One person killed, after their motorcycle collides with a car at an intersection in West Palm Beach.
The driver of a motorcycle died Sunday night after crashing into a car in suburban West Palm Beach, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.
The crash took place at Summit Boulevard and Congress Avenue around 6 p.m. Sunday, said a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
The motorcycle was traveling eastbound on summit and the car was pulling out of a gas station at Summit and Congress.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue personnel declared the motorcycle rider, later identified as Marlody Baker Campos Jr., 24, dead at the scene, police said.
A train and truck collided in South Florida Friday, closing down nearby roads as authorities worked to clear the wreckage.
The truck’s driver, Voroly Olivares, said he was following his GPS instructions in the dark and accidentally turn onto the tracks in Lake Worth, Fla. The truck then got stuck on the tracks and shortly after the train came along and hit it. The driver was not in it.
The crash was reported at 5:15 a.m. Friday.
A mother, later identified as Kerri Chavez, 32, and her two young children and a semi driver were injured Thursday in a crash at Northlake and Hall boulevards in The Acreage. The sheriff's office said a tractor-trailer was traveling west on Northlake Boulevard when a sport-utility vehicle, which was traveling north on Hall Boulevard, ran the stop sign at the intersection. Firefighters had to extricate the occupants from the vehicles using heavy extrication tools, said Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The mother and two children in the SUV were taken to St.
Two men were flown to an area hospital in critical condition tonight after they were injured during a crash between a motorcycle and a bicycle in Palm Springs, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said.
The crash occurred at about 7 p.m. near 10th Avenue North and Rudolph Road, just east of South Congress Avenue.
Paramedics found both injured men lying in the roadway, said a spokesman for Fire Rescue.
Both men were flown by Trauma Hawk to Delray Medical Center.
A Vero Beach man was killed and a West Palm Beach man seriously injured Monday morning following a two-vehicle crash that left Florida’s Turnpike shut down in both directions.
Scott Christopher Terry, 38, was killed he drove his 2008 Dodge Ram into the back of a tow truck driven by Leon Harvey Hill Jr. around nine miles north of the Indiantown Road exit in Jupiter.
Two people riding a motorcycle were seriously hurt Monday morning after a crash in suburban West Palm Beach.
The wreck occurred around 7 a.m. at the intersection of Belvedere and Benoist Farms roads.
Palm Beach Fire and Rescue tweeted that two patients were airlifted to St. Mary's Medical Center.
The road was closed for more than an hour but back open by 8:45 a.m.
A deputy at the scene said both of the victims on the motorcycle are in very serious condition.