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A 63-year-old Orlando man died Sunday after the Jeep Compass he was driving was struck by a Dodge Challenger and rolled over at the intersection of Silver Star Road and Powers Drive, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The accident happened just after 6 p.m. The man, whose name was not released, was not wearing a seatbelt while driving the Jeep, according to an FHP incident report. The driver of the Dodge, a 22-year-old Orlando man, and the passenger, a

A retired paramedic who lives close to where a 36-year-old motorcyclist was killed Sunday said he heard the crash from his home and then rushed to the scene to help. “I went to my truck and grabbed my first-aid kit,” Mark Lowell at the Melbourne Beach mobile home park said. “There were other cars that were stopping, but no one was actually accessing the patient.” Lowell’s heroic efforts would be on surveillance from a Shell gas station at SR-A1A and Moonlight Drive. Management

 A Ridge Manor man is dead after he was hit while riding his bike on News Years morning. Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said the 44-year-old Florida man was riding his bike around 6:45 a.m. Monday morning when what is believed to be a 2007-2010 Ford Edge of an unknown color hit him while on southbound US-301. The man was reportedly thrown from the bicycle, which was dragged another 350 feet before it dislodged from the vehicle. The driver of the

A Chiefland woman died early Sunday morning in a single-vehicle crash in rural Levy County. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the accident occurred at midnight on County Road 347 south of Clayton Road, which is about 11 miles north of Cedar Key. The woman, age 50, was driving an SUV north on CR 347 when her vehicle traveled off the road and hit several trees. First responders with Levy County Fire Rescue declared the woman dead on the

An 8-year-old boy, reportedly from Parma, is among two dead in a single-vehicle crash Sunday that also left three other people, two from Northeast Ohio, seriously injured. WOIO Channel 19 reports that an aunt of the boy confirmed he had died in the crash in Calhoun County, Florida. A news release from the Florida Highway Patrol did not name the victims. The Highway Patrol says in the news release that a 2007 Buick four-door sedan with five people inside was driving

Photo by: Tampa Bay A Georgia man died after running a red light and hitting another driver in Pinellas County late on New Year’s Eve, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. A news release from the agency says a 20-year-old man from Grovetown, Georgia, was driving a BMW 335xi at a high rate of speed heading southbound on U.S. 19. At 11:40 p.m. Sunday, troopers say he failed to stop at a red light and hit a Kia Optima driven

A man from Alabama died and two others suffered injuries in a single-vehicle crash in Florida on New Year’s Day, WEAR news reports. The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. in Escambia County, about 500 feet from the Alabama state line. The report did not provide name of the man who died, but it said he was 56 and from Bay Minette. The man was a passenger in a vehicle that struck a raised pedestrian crosswalk, according to WEAR. The 23-year-old driver,

Photo by: yahoo A family in Winter Park woke up to what sounded like an explosion, home renter Mason Gregory said. A driver crashed into a home in the 1600 block of Brian Avenue around 5:30 on Monday morning. Winter Park Police confirmed to FOX 35 News that no one was hurt. Gregory is the father of two small children aged three and six. When referring to the driver, he said, “You could’ve killed us or one of our kids.”