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A Middleburg motorcyclist died in a crash Saturday afternoon after running through a stop sign, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the 58-year-old motorcyclist was driving south on Indigo Avenue around 1 p.m. while a truck was traveling with a passenger west on Cattail Street. The report said the motorcyclist did not stop at the stop sign at the intersection, causing him to collide with the truck’s passenger side. The motorcyclist died on the scene. The report said

Panama City Police Department staff stated there was a crash involving a motorcyclist at the intersection of 23rd Street and Beck Avenue Saturday evening that has closed the intersection. Authorities said a car was facing west in the turn lane on 23rd Street trying to turn south onto Beck Avenue, and they said the motorcyclist was going east on 23rd Street. The crash is still under investigation, but officials said at least one of the vehicles failed to yield, and

South Walton Fire District staff said four people were hospitalized after a multi-car crash in south Walton County Saturday evening. Authorities said around 6:20 p.m., firefighters arrived on the scene of the crash at U.S. Highway 98 and Mussett Bayou Road. They said four vehicles were involved in the incident, including motorcycles, and multiple people were requiring immediate medical attention. Officials said two patients with serious injuries were determined to be “trauma alerts” and were taken to a trauma center

A 60-year-old bicyclist was killed in a crash in the Florida Keys Saturday morning that caused about four hours of partial closures on a major highway, authorities said. Around 10:30 a.m., the bicyclist, who was not identified, was stopped in the left turn lane on US-1 near 39th Street in Marathon, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. A pickup truck, driven by a 44-year-old man, was stopped at the intersection of 39th Street and Gulf Avenue.The bicyclist began to

Two drivers and a pedestrian were injured and a parked car hit by a pole in a crash near the Buttonwood Shopping Plaza on Friday, according to the Palm Beach Country Sheriff’s Office Friday afternoon. PBSO responded to the crash at 5:38 p.m. at 10th Avenue North and Seven Springs Boulevard. A 2014 Ford Mustang driven by a Palm Springs teen on his 17th birthday was traveling westbound on 10th Avenue North in the outside lane at a high rate

The Florida Highway Patrol says the traffic accident happened on County Road 309 near Browns Fish Camp Road Saturday night. Two St. Augustine men died Saturday night after they rear-ended a pickup truck in Putnam County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The FHP crash report states that at 10:58 p.m., the pickup truck in which had seven total occupants in it, including the driver — was traveling southbound on County Road 309. The report states that the two unidentified

Photo by: Yahoo News  Officials say a 21-year-old Wesley Chapel man hit a car head-on while driving in the wrong direction early Sunday morning. The 21-year-old was driving a Lexus IS sedan south in the northbound lanes of I-75, south of SR-56 around 3:42 a.m., according to troopers. The Florida Highway Patrol says the driver was near milepost 272 when he hit a Chevy Colorado being driven by a 37-year-old Wesley Chapel man head-on. The Chevy was traveling north in the inside

A woman is dead after a Sunday afternoon traffic accident on County Road 399, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. FHP responded to the incident, which happened at approximately 4:20 p.m. on CR-399 (East Bay Boulevard) in Santa Rosa County. How Santa Rosa County is fighting real estate fraud The driver, a 26-year-old female from Navarre, was driving eastbound on CR-399 when the vehicle left the roadway and crashed into a tree, according to an FHP news release. The impact resulted

A crash in Panama City Beach left one person dead and another seriously injured. It happened at the intersection of Lyndell Lane and Highway 98 at about 5 p.m. Thursday. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a Central Florida man was driving an SUV east on Highway 98 when he collided with a car that was stopped at the stop sign at Lyndell Lane. That car was pushed across the sidewalk and into a utility pole guy wire. A 79-year-old

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an $18.9 million judgment against a Pasco County woman whose son got into a catastrophic accident while using a family car. Justices, in a 5-1 decision, upheld a 2nd District Court of Appeal decision that said Debbie Lambert could not be held “vicariously” liable for the 2015 accident. Lambert’s son, Kyle, was driving a family Hyundai Sonata that hit motorcyclist Bruce Emerson, whose injuries caused him to be a quadriplegic. Pasco County Circuit

Photo by: 20wcjb  Twenty-seven Marion County students are uninjured after a traffic crash involving a school bus. Marion County Fire Rescue units were called to the scene right before 9 a.m. this morning. The crash took place at the intersection of SE 150th St and SE 36th Avenue. 911 callers reported a passenger vehicle had rear-ended a school bus. Fire crews said the driver of the passenger vehicle was trapped in the wreck. They removed the car doors to get

he Florida Highway Patrol said a man died in a crash along the Beachline Expressway, and now investigators are trying to pinpoint when the crash actually happened. Troopers first responded to the crash in Orange County shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday. According to Florida Highway Patrol, the driver of a Ford Mustang lost control on the exit ramp of westbound State Road 528 to northbound State Road 417. Investigators said the Mustang went off the roadway along a curve,