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Monday, September 1, 2014The man's car was found overturned in a wooded area with the man ejected from the vehicle, already dead from fatal injuries.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014Donald Thomasson died Sunday afternoon when his aircraft crashed near Albert Whitted Airport. The plane was completely submerged in 25 feet of murky water. Divers found Thomasson's body still strapped into the cockpit seat.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014Intini took off Thursday morning from Spring Hill in a single-seat ultralight. Sheriff’s investigators did not immediately know Intini’s final intended destination but when he got near the grassy air strip at Bob Lee Airport, he was flying at an altitude of approximately 1,200 feet when he experienced engine trouble.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014Area:
Ft. Myers-Naples, FLWhile Robert H. Frost was killed in the rear-end collision, the students on the bus and driver were either unscathed or sustained only minor injuries.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLThe tanker spilled between 250 and 500 gallons of gasoline into the ditch, and around 20 emergency vehicles were sent to the site to remove fuel from the damaged tanker. A crane was brought in to remove the vehicle from the ditch. Four other vehicles were involved in the crash but no other injuries were reported. Grattan was airlifted by helicopter to hospital but died shortly after the crash.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014One man died and four people were injured in a chain-reaction crash investigators believe began when a 68-year-old driver had a medical problem and passed out at the wheel, the Broward Sheriff's Office said Friday.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLTwo people are dead following a chain-reaction crash involving a school bus. The crash happened on Dunn Avenue and New Kings Road. The Florida Highway Patrol said a school bus with 14 students from Dinsmore Elementary School stopped with its lights flashing, dropping kids off. A black car and white SUV were stopped behind the bus. FHP said a semi truck driver didn't see the stopped cars in time to stop. He swerved to try to avoid the crash but couldn't. Four children were taken to UF Health, as well as the school bus driver.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014Two drivers died when a 91-year-old man driving the wrong way on Interstate 75 near the Florida-Georgia border late Friday night stuck an SUV and a Greyhound bus. Troopers said a 91-year-old driver was diving south in the northbound lanes when they ran head-on into the bus and a Ford Expedition at mile marker 449, about 10 miles south of Jasper in Hamilton County. The car's driver, Ernest Lee Holmes, 91, from High Springs, Florida was killed in the accident, according to the FHP report. Peter Linek, 55, of Ormond Beach, who was driving the SUV also died.
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Friday, February 21, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA 69-year-old Manatee County woman died Friday afternoon from injuries sustained in a parking lot accident.
Susan Roberts Murphy was pronounced dead at the scene just after 4:30 p.m.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report Murphy has just finished shopping at BJ’s Wholesale Club and was loading items into the front passenger side of her 2001 Chrysler Town and Country van when the vehicle started moving in reverse for unknown reasons.
Murphy fell under the vehicle and was struck on the head and body by the front right tire.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013Area:
Jacksonville, FLA 3-year-old died in a crash in Putnam County on Sunday morning.
It happened on U.S. 17 at Clifton Road near Crescent City around 9 a.m.
Troopers said Gerard Buchan, 74, was driving a 1999 Ford Explorer westbound on Clifton Rd. when he stopped at a stop sign. When he started moving again, he didn't yield to a Dodge Caravan, according to the Florida Highway Patrol report. The vehicles crashed in the intersection.
Ashley Thomas, 29, was driving the Caravan and sustained serious injuries.