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Tuesday, January 28, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA deadly accident shut down the southbound lanes on Interstate 75 near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Hillsborough County late Tuesday evening. The roadway was closed early Wednesday morning for a clean up. It reopened around 6 a.m.
A Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Public Information Officer says the accident involved at least six vehicles including a tractor trailer.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014Police say a driver who sped away from an officer died in a crash minutes later on Orlando's John Young Parkway.
The officer approached the vehicle Sunday evening because it was stopped in a turn lane near Interstate 4. Police say the man drove away when the officer asked him to get out of the vehicle.
The man was not being chased by police officers when he crashed into the back of a minivan. The vehicle overturned. The driver, later identified as Alex Gomez-Guerrero, 20, was killed and some of the occupants of the minivan were taken to the hospital for treatment.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014Several passengers have been taken to the hospital after a Lynx bus was involved in a crash in Orange County Thursday morning.
The crash occurred on North Orange Blossom Trail and Rosamond Drive in Orlando just before 10 a.m. A picture from the crash scene shows a Toyota truck crashed into the back of the Lynx bus.
Orange County Fire Rescue said eight Lynx bus passengers were taken to the hospital and one person declined to be hospitalized.
Orange Blossom Trail was closed as the investigation continued, but was reopened shortly after 10:30 a.m.
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Monday, January 20, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLA crash on Interstate 10 involving a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office police cruiser and a minivan caused major traffic delays Tuesday.
The crash happened on the interstate near U.S. Highway 301 about 9:15 a.m.
Police said the minivan with four women inside and the JSO cruiser were heading west on I-10 when the minivan slowed down to avoid an accident ahead. Van in JSO crash Police said the officer didn't see the van slow down and the cruiser rear-ended it.
The van spun in the roadway and the patrol car left the road and went into a ditch.