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Two people have died in a crash involving a motorcycle in Seminole County on Tuesday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers said the crash occurred at State Road 46 and State Road 415. A pickup truck was driving northbound on SR 415 when a spool of electrical wire in the truck's cargo area flew out and struck the motorcyclists, later identified as Helene Bouchard, 54, and Andre Grenier, 58, causing them to be ejected.
The motorcycle then ignited and the man and the woman on the motorcycle died on the scene, troopers said.
Three people were injured after a fiery crash on Sample Road at Military Trail in Pompano Beach Monday morning.
At least four cars were involved in the crash in the westbound lanes of Sample Road. Four patients, a woman and three men, were taken to Broward Health North and one of them was a trauma alert, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said.
Officials said the impact sheared off the gas tank of a pickup truck and it caught fire.
After he was released from JFK Hospital with minor injuries from crashing his car into a home in Lake Worth, Albert Garcia-Cruz was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Monday.
Garcia-Cruz, 26, faces a moving traffic violation because he did not have a driver’s licence.
The accident happened around 7 a.m. Monday at a home off of Sixth Avenue South and South Street, where two people partner were sleeping. They were uninjured, but the foyer at the front of their home was destroyed.
One person, later identified as Leonard W. McGarity, 58, died in the plane crash this afternoon in the 2900 block of Greenbriar Boulevard. The plane is a single-engine experimental aircraft, said a Palm Beach County Fire Rescue spokesman Capt.
The crash happened around 12:55 p.m.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue crews and Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies are at the scene.
A University of Central Florida professor was killed Monday night in a two-vehicle crash in Brevard County, school officials said.
Dr. Bill Safranek, an assistant professor in UCF’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, died in the crash, which occurred near State Road 520 and State Road 524 in Cocoa.
A woman identified as Wendymary Artiles, 22, of Apopka, also died in the crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. She was a passenger in the other vehicle.
A 58-year-old Rockledge woman was killed Monday morning in a crash involving a minivan and a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Brevard County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Christina Wysong, 58, died in the crash, which happened around 10:35 a.m. on I-95 southbound near Palm Bay.
According to the FHP, the minivan crashed into the back of the semitrailer, which was disabled and parked on the shoulder of the interstate. It's not known why Wysong veered off the highway.
The driver of the blue Ford Explorer that crashed into a Lake Worth home this morning is in a local hospital and is facing criminal charges, according to a Palm Beach County sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Deputies suspect the man, whose name was not released, was impaired at the time of the crash. He also did not have a license.
The crash happened around 7:15 a.m. in the 500 block of South C Street, just east of Interstate 95 and just north of Sixth Avenue South.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue crews and Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene.
Officials are searching for black pick-up truck with an extended cab and tinted windows that left the scene of a fatal bicycle crash early Monday morning in St. Lucie County. The bicyclist, later identified as Nelson Reeves, 64, was traveling in the bike lane northbound on State Road A1A when it was hit by the truck just before 8 a.m. in Jensen Beach, according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release. There is no description of the driver available. The bicyclist was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
A convicted felon already on probation crashed a stolen van Saturday afternoon injuring two people before attempting to flee on foot.
The incident occurred just before 1 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County near the McIntosh Rd. exit. Robert Emmett Moore IV was eventually captured, arrested and booked into the Hillsborough County Jail where he is facing a variety of charges.