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A stolen car rammed into an officer after fleeing from police in Palm Bay on Friday afternoon, according to the department. In a release, police said that the Flock Safety camera system alerted officers to the stolen car heading through the city around 1:44 p.m. “Upon locating the vehicle, it fled from our officers, and a pursuit was not initiated,” the release reads. Police explained that they once again encountered the stolen vehicle a short while later, though this time,

Photo by: local10 A traffic accident caused a lane closure in a busy part of Miami early Sunday morning. It happened along South Dixie Highway where the road meets the southern end of I-95. Local 10’s cameras observed the two left lanes of South Dixie Highway blocked due to the crash. The crash appears to have involved a box truck and the median of the roadway, but a large semi-truck was also observed at the scene. Authorities have not provided

A motorcyclist was hospitalized in critical condition Saturday evening as the driver accused of rear-ending them on Interstate 4 in Seminole County — with westbound lanes shut down for several hours as a result — was arrested to face criminal charges including DUI, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. EAR , 30, was arrested around 11 p.m. after Seminole County deputies found him hiding in a wooded area southwest of the crash, which occurred about an hour earlier in the

A motorcyclist is dead following a crash in Orange County early Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the crash occurred shortly before 1:30 a.m. on State Road 408, west of East Colonial Drive. Authorities said the 45-year-old man from Groveland was riding a 2021 Harley-Davidson Road Glide westbound on SR-408 when, for reasons still unknown, he veered off the road and struck a guardrail. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The

Florida Highway Patrol says a 65-year-old Orlando man is dead after driving off the roadway and striking two unoccupied vehicles. Troopers say the man was traveling northbound on Goldenrod Road just north of Bryan Road when he ran off the roadway and struck a sign and fence. His vehicle then continued into a parking lot and collided with a sedan and a pickup truck. The man was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead. FHP says they

A 40-year-old woman died in a Marion County crash that occurred just after noon on Sunday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The woman was driving her vehicle northbound on NE 36th Avenue Road when she stopped at a stop sign at an intersection, FHP said. According to troopers, a second driver, traveling behind the woman in the first vehicle, failed to stop at the same stop sign and hit the rear of the woman’s car. The force from the

Photo by: wesh A submerged vehicle was pulled from a lake in Orlando on Monday morning. Orange County Fire Rescue received the call about the incident around 6 a.m. Officials discovered a car partially submerged in Lake Mann at McQueen Park, but no one was found inside. Details about how the car ended up in the water are unknown at this time. After a car accident, many victims feel overwhelmed by medical bills, vehicle damage, and insurance company pressure. Ovadia