Category Archives: Car Accident
Deadly Motorcycle Wreck In Polk County
As an officer multitasked behind the wheel, his police cruiser struck a motorcycle, causing the 52-year-old rider to tumble off his bike and into the path of an oncoming semi-truck. The wreck happened near State Highway 559 on Interstate 4. A trooper was helping a road construction crew. When he pulled into the inside… Read More »
Serious Injury, Officer Involved Wreck In Tampa
Although the investigation is still ongoing, observers believe distracted driving may have caused a serious crash as an officer responded to a nearby hit-and-run accident. According to investigators, at the intersection of North 29th Street and MLK, an officer looking for a hit-and-run suspect smashed into the rear passenger side of a Nissan Sentra…. Read More »
Car Runs Over Orlando Man Near Local Convenience Store
According to witnesses, the intersection of George Road and Hillsborough Avenue sees more than its share of jaywalking pedestrians. Most of them survive the crossing, but on this day, a 49-year-old man did not. Investigators from the Florida Highway Patrol say that the man was trying to cross the westbound lanes of Hillsborough Avenue…. Read More »
Speeding Driver Kills Bicyclist In Tampa
A motorist “failed to observe” a southbound bicyclist as he was travelling “at a high rate of speed,” according to investigators. Investigators offered few other details. Apparently, the motorist clipped the bicycle rider and then spun into a tree. The bicyclist died at the scene. The driver was injured but doctors expect him to… Read More »
Fatal Tractor-Trailer Collision In Tampa
Driver fatigue may have contributed to an intersection collision between a passenger car and a semi-truck in Tampa. The wreck happened near the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Waring Drive. According to police and witnesses, a 27-year-old man driving a passenger car was eastbound in a turn lane. He tried to turn… Read More »
Three-Car Wreck Kills Four People In Highlands County
A 6-year-old child was among the victims of a wrong-way wreck that killed four people and seriously injured several others. This accident happened in Sebring, near the intersection of Tubbs Ranch Road and U.S. Highway 98. According to police, a sedan containing two adults and a child crossed the centerline, sideswiped a second car,… Read More »
Terror At The Waffle House
Investigators believe that a driver hit the accelerator instead of the brake as he tried to park and propelled his vehicle through a Waffle House on Columbus Drive. When emergency responders arrived, they found a pickup truck inside the restaurant. One adult and one child were trapped under debris and seriously injured. Three other… Read More »
Deadly Fireball Collision In Zephyrhills
A young man from Tampa is dead after a pickup truck rear-ended his disabled vehicle, catapulting it onto the shoulder and causing it to burst into flame. The wreck happened on U.S. Highway 301 near Chancey Road. According to police and witnesses, a pickup truck plowed into a disabled car, which was partially on… Read More »
Authorities Seek Hit-And-Run Driver In Fatal Tampa Pedestrian Accident
The Florida Highway Patrol has essentially nothing to work with as it searches for a motorist who struck and killed a 32-year-old woman. All they know is that a vehicle apparently drifted into the bicycle lane on 56th Street, not far from Haney Lane, where the woman was walking. She died at the scene…. Read More »
Two Dead After Runaway Tesla Strikes Home
Investigators believe that speed was the primary factor in a deadly crash which killed a 69-year-old Pinellas County woman. Few details about the wreck were available, except that it happened on Manning Road and involved a Tesla which failed to stop at a stop sign at a T intersection. The vehicle barreled into a… Read More »