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A semi-truck driver was killed in a freak accident as he tried to stop for a fire truck. The 32-year-old semi driver slammed on the brakes so hard that beams on the trailer came crashing through the cab crushing him to death. Witnesses wonder if an emergency signal wasn't activated before the fire truck headed out for the emergency call.
A 55-year-old Winter Park man was pronounced dead after losing control of his sport utility vehicle on Florida's Turnpike on Monday afternoon, resulting in a crash that shut down all southbound lanes of the highway.
Florida Highway Patrol identified the victim as Dennis Wickham. The crash was at mile post 246. Emergency vehicles responded, causing slowdowns on northbound lanes of the Turnpike as the southbound lanes were detoured at Exit 249, Osceola Parkway.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers today made an arrest in a fatal hit and run crash that occurred Sunday morning along Orange Blossom Trail in Kissimmee.
Giselle Marie Saez Castellano, 27, 1902 Lighthouse Way, No. 104, Kissimmee, has been charged with felony leaving the scene of a crash involving death and was taken to Osceola County Jail, FHP spokesperson Sgt. Kim Montes said.
A male pedestrian was hit by a train Wednesday afternoon in Kissimmee, according to police.
Kissimmee police and fire crews responded to the crash at 3 p.m.that occurred near Smith and Vine streets.
Police said the male pedestrian, who is in his late teens to early 20s, was wearing headphones at the time of the crash.
The victim was airlifted to a local hospital, police said. It's not clear what the pedestrian's condition is.