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A suspect was in police custody after being chased by police along busy highways into the heart of Miami on Tuesday.
The man, identified by police as 47-year-old Guillermo Alvarez-Mendez, drove the wrong way on busy streets and crashed what authorities said was a stolen van into one car head-on at Southwest 16th Avenue and Southwest 1st Street. After the crash, he took off running into the streets of Little Havana, and at one point climbed over rooftops as he fled through the neighborhood.
A woman was flown to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries after a three-car wreck in suburban Lake Worth, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said.
The wreck happened just before 7 p.m. in Lake Worth Road’s 7000 block, between Jog Road and Florida’s Turnpike, said a Fire Rescue spokesman.
One car struck a pole and another a guard rail.
The woman was flown to Delray Medical Center by Trauma Hawk.
24-year-old Patrick Tahaney of Windermere was driving his 2006 Dodge Charger northbound on Turkey Lake Road when, for an unknown reason, troopers said he lost control of his car and went off the road.
He traveled through several yards, struck a fence and two trees and died at the scene, troopers said.
Chad Siplin, 25, a passenger inside the Charger, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center. Ryan Siefker, 22, another passenger suffered minor injuries.
The Florida Highway Patrol arrested a driver in an overnight hit-and-run crash on Interstate 95 South. A driver hit a car at about 1:15 a.m. Monday on I-95, just north of Linton Boulevard in Delray Beach. FHP said no one was seriously hurt, but the truck connected to the crash was later found. The driver was arrested and charged with DUI and fleeing the scene of an accident. FHP has not released the name of the person facing charges.
A driver was arrested on DUI charges after he crashed his truck into two cars and a house in Cooper City Sunday night, authorities said.
Matthew Lingwood, 28, was arrested after the crash at 10806 S. Saratoga Drive, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.
"Right now the suspect is facing a host of charges including three counts of DUI with property damage, one count of DUI on a first offense, four counts of DUI with serious injury, one count of reckless driving and an additional count of possession of marijuana with intent to sell or deliver," a BSO spokesman said.
Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that killed an eight month old child and injured six others. It happened just before 2:30 Saturday morning on U.S. 17 in Jacksonville.
Florida Highway patrol says 25 year old Preston Momin was driving a 2008 Land Rover was traveling southbound on U.S. 17 with four passengers.
As Momin attempted to make a left turn onto I-295 east beltway ramp the truck traveled into the path of a Ford Explorer traveling northbound on U.S. 17.
Interstate 4 in Orlando was closed for hours Friday morning after a tractor-trailer crashed and spilled lumber onto the roadway.
I-4 west was closed at Maitland Boulevard around 2:30 a.m., but two lanes were reopened about four hours later after crews cleared the wood from the interstate. Traffic remained backed up during rush hour, however.