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According to one prominent study, about a third of motorcycle crashes happen when the motorist makes an unprotected turn in traffic and steers directly into a rider’s path. Typically, that maneuver is a U-turn, an unprotected left turn across traffic, or a sudden lane change. SMIDSY (sorry, mate, I didn’t see you) crashes might be [...]
Police are searching for a pickup truck driver who allegedly ran over a pedestrian and then almost immediately thereafter fled the scene. According to witnesses, the vehicle paused for only a moment after it fatally struck 74-year-old Janice Joy, of Lakeland, as she walked near the Duff Road/Sheffield Drive intersection. As a result of the [...]
A pickup truck driver apparently lost control of his vehicle, swerved into oncoming traffic, collided with several vehicles, and killed four people. The wreck occurred on Interstate 4 between Kathleen and Memorial in Lakeland. Authorities state that a 22-year-old man from Haines City crossed over from the eastbound side to the westbound side, careening into [...]
A teenage boy was killed when a driver who was allegedly under the influence of drugs smashed into three cars waiting at a stoplight. The 15-year-old boy from Hialeah was a passenger in one of the cars at the stoplight. He was rushed to a nearby hospital – along with three other injured victims – [...]
One motorist is dead after a four-car pile-up crash on U.S. 301. Seventy-four-year-old Berrisford Turner was the wreck’s only serious casualty. According to authorities, 23-year-old Mauricio Chacon was southbound in a 2010 Ford van when he initially sideswiped a Ford F-150 then careened into the rear end of Mr. Turner’s 2014 Honda Accord. The force [...]
