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Wednesday, April 22, 2015Area:
Jacksonville, FL14-year-old Joel Stephen Howell was riding an ATV to the north on Jaguar Drive at about 7:45 a.m. when he failed to properly negotiate a curve in the road, hit the curb, and was ejected from the vehicle. He was not wearing a helmet, sustained critical injuries, and has since been transported to UF Health Jacksonville.
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Monday, March 30, 2015Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL10-year-old Chad Andrews was driving a miniature dirt bike west on 20th Street East, but failed to stop at the stop sign at 2nd Avenue East and drove right into the side of a southbound Honda motorcycle driven by Daniel Kendrick, 43. Andrews was thrown from his bike and critically injured; he remains in critical condition at Bayfront Medical Center. Kendrick and his passenger Tameashia Robinson, 31, both sustained serious injuries and were taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital. None of the people involved were wearing helmets at the time.
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Sunday, February 1, 2015Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA 15-year-old St. Petersburg boy was killed in a skateboarding accident Sunday evening. Julio Moisa, 15, was driving with a learner's permit along Atwood Avenue N towing a skateboard with a rider behind his mother's Mercedes sedan. The boy on the skateboard, Austin Demauro, 15, a freshman at Northeast High School, let go after completing a trick known as "skitching." At this point the boy lost control and fell from the skateboard, striking his head against the pavement. He was not wearing a helmet. Demauro was transported to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg, where he was pronounced dead.
Julia Flannagan, 15, and Lindsey Fullard, 14, seriously injured in ATV accident in White Springs, FL
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Sunday, August 31, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLTwo of the three girls, driver Flannagan and passenger Fullard, were thrown from the vehicle during the crash. None of the girls were wearing helmets or using safety belts. Flannagan and Fullard were taken to Shand UF in serious condition.
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Friday, August 22, 2014Area:
Ft. Myers-Naples, FLLee County deputy was found at fault in an accident that killed Austin Dukette, 15. Deputy Douglas E. Hood was cited for careless driving following a two-month investigation. Austin was riding his bike to school on August 22nd and Hood hit the back tire of the boy's bike, from behind, with his patrol car on Kismet Parkway and Northwest Seventh Avenue, in Cape Coral, FL.