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25-year-old woman dead, deputy injured in Collier County I-75 crash

photo by: nbc-2 A 25-year-old woman is dead and a deputy is injured after a fatal car crash in Collier County on I-75 early Saturday morning. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a deputy with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office was blocking traffic in response to a crash. During the traffic block, a paint striping truck crashed into a Road Ranger truck and the truck hit the CCSO cruiser. Troopers say approximately 100 gallons of paint was spilled onto Interstate

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22-year-old sanitation worker killed after being run over by garbage truck on Jacksonville’s Westside

photo by WJXT News4JAX  A sanitation worker was killed Friday afternoon after an accident occurred while working on Jacksonville’s Westside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The fatal accident occurred around 11:17 a.m. in a neighborhood on Driftwood Hills Drive, JSO said. According to JSO, the garbage truck was westbound collecting trash as another truck approached eastbound. Due to the size of the two trucks, they were not able to go around one another, so the driver of the garbage

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Bradford County deputies investigating multi-vehicle crash that left 12 patients with minor injuries

photo by: Bradford County Fire Rescue Bradford County Fire Rescue (BCFR) firefighters said they are responding to an active scene north of Melrose where multiple cars crashed and several victims are suffering minor injuries. BCFR firefighters posted on social media around 11:30 a.m. Friday paramedics were evaluating 12 patients with minor injuries. Officials were unable to tell us what kind of vehicle the patients were in at the time of the crash. Deputies with the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO)

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Woman accused in Volusia hit-and-run jumped out of truck to cover license plate with paper, deputies say

A 37-year-old woman is accused of hitting a 16-year-old boy, jumping out of a pickup truck to cover her license plate and fleeing from the wreck in Volusia County, according to deputies. The hit-and-run crash happened just before 4 p.m. Thursday on Gage Avenue near Noah Street. According to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office, the teen was riding his scooter home from school when he was struck by a black Chevrolet Silverado. He suffered a serious cut on the back of

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1 dead after man crashes car into parked truck in West Palm Beach

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a crash that occurred Thursday night. The sheriff’s office report notes just before 9:30 p.m., a Honda Accord driven by a 46-year-old man was traveling northbound on Seminole Boulevard and made a left turn on Genessee Avenue. At some point, the Honda drove off the roadway and collided with a parked, unoccupied vehicle that was properly parked. At 11:39 p.m., a passerby called 911 to report the collision. According to the report,

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Child hurt trying to cross Seminole Pratt Whitney Road with her father

Seminole Pratt Whitney Road is back open after a child was hit by a truck Friday morning. The collision occurred at 10:26 a.m. in the 5200 Seminole Pratt Whitney Road. A 5-year-old was taken by Trauma Hawk with a head injury to St. Mary’s Medical Center. Her father sustained minor injuries, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said the father and his child were trying to cross the road when they were struck

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Wrong-way driver causes head-on collision in Pinellas County, 2 seriously injured: Florida Highway Patrol

Two drivers are hospitalized with serious injuries after colliding head-on Friday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said. At 5:02 a.m., troopers said a 21-year-old Winter Haven man in a Ford F150 was traveling in the wrong direction in the eastbound lanes of Roosevelt Boulevard. At the same time, a 48-year-old Illinois man in a Chrysler Pacifica was traveling east in the eastbound lanes on the same road. Officials said at the intersection of Rhodes Road, the two vehicles collided head-on.

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Police arrest driver who allegedly cost man his leg in Fort Lauderdale hit-and-run

Police have arrested the woman who they say crashed into a good Samaritan helping a stranded motorist in Fort Lauderdale months ago, causing life-altering injuries, before she fled the scene. Now, 29-year-old T S L M is behind bars, accused of leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury and other charges. The incident happened just after midnight back on Aug. 11 when the victim, Y A, saw someone pushing a truck in the 2300 block of Northwest 6th Street.

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Pinellas County deputy injured after car cuts cruiser off, officials say

A Pinellas County deputy was injured in a crash Thursday night, landing him and another driver in the hospital. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, an unidentified driver pulled out in front of the deputy, who was in a PCSO cruiser, causing the crash. Both the deputy and driver were taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. Images taken from the scene show damage to the front left of the vehicle. This remains an ongoing investigation. The aftermath

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1 dead after early morning shooting in Tampa, deputies say

A shooting in Tampa on Friday left one dead, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded to reports of a shooting around 4 a.m. on the block of Patina Drive in Tampa. According to HCSO, deputies arrived on the scene and located an adult male with upper body trauma. Life-saving measures were performed, but the victim died at the scene. This is an ongoing investigation. Experiencing a shooting incident can be a traumatic and life-altering event. At Ovadia Law

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Plant City recycle warehouse catches fire, crews still investigating

A recycling facility in Plant City caught fire on Thursday, according to Hillsborough County Fire Rescue. Fire crews were dispatched to the NuCycle Energy warehouse, located on South County Line Road in Plant City, to assist Plant City Fire Rescue with the “rapidly escalating” fire. A large cardboard recycling facility was found engulfed in heavy smoke, with debris on fire. Due to the extent of the fire, the response was upgraded to a two-alarm fire. The fire remains under investigation.

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Florida teens crash into business during string of burglaries, police say

Credit: St. Cloud Police Department St. Cloud Police arrested three Kissimmee teenagers accused of burglarizing several vehicles and businesses along Commerce Center Drive on Thursday morning. Investigators said the group used a car stolen from Kissimmee to target Kia owners and others in the Summer Cove community. “Just before 5 a.m., the teens used their vehicle as a battering ram to drive through the wall of Signal Zero Supplies on Commerce Center Drive. After breaking through the front wall, the

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