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A deadly pileup on I-75 near Gainesville Sunday, January 29, 2012, killed ten people and 21 were injured when fog combined with dense smoke from a wildfire in Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park moved over the Interstate.
The road has reopened but the National Weather Service in Jacksonville warned that new wildfires burning in the Osceola [...]
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As reported by The Palm Beach Post:
As the first stretch of guardrails was installed along State Road 80 near Belle Glade this summer, officials gathered to remember a mother and her two daughters who drowned this year after driving into a canal near that very spot.
The long-sought guardrails are among the measures that local officials [...]
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According to The Palm Beach Post, a 19-year-old Palm Beach State College student died and four others were sent to the hospital when a car and a sport utility vehicle collided on Northlake Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
On Thursday, September 29, 2011, at around 11:39 p.m., Bryanna N. Sanville, of Palm Beach Gardens, was in [...]
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According to the Palm Beach Post, the southbound lanes of I-95 were closed for three hours Thursday morning, September 8, 2011, after a crash and car fire that left one person dead and a second person hurt.
The incident was initially reported shortly before 6 a.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Investigators were trying to determine if [...]
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According to a Palm Beach Post article, South Florida recorded 1,555 pedestrian deaths from 2000 to 2009, according to Transportation for America, which promotes alternatives to driving. The region averaged 2.9 deaths for every 100,000 people.
Traffic engineers in South Florida have taken small steps in the past decade to improve safety for people walking. For instance, [...]
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According to the Palm Beach Post, Southbound lanes of Florida’s Turnipke have reopened after a fatal crash closed them for nearly six hours this morning, August 10, 2011.
The accident involving a tractor trailer and a pickup truck happened around 1:28 a.m. just north of PGA Boulevard, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
The identity of the person killed [...]
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According to The Palm Beach Post, a popular Miami salsa singer’s elderly father lost control of his sport utility vehicle and plowed it into a west Miami-Dade boutique Tuesday afternoon, instantly killing the pregnant owner, Celeste Gaitan, 33 and a second woman in her 20’s.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue workers rushed the deceased Gaitan to Kendall Regional Hospital in [...]
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According to The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a driver after she apparently lost control of her car and hit two people sitting at a bus stop in Lake Worth this morning.
The two people were driven to Delray Medical Center and JFK Medical Center in Atlantis under trauma alert, according to Palm Beach County [...]
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According to the Palm Beach Post, a 44-year-old Wellington man died Saturday, July 16, 2011, on Military Trail after his motorcycle crashed into a pickup truck.
George Gonzalez was reportedly driving the motorcycle quickly; and he may have been in a race with another vehicle or caught up in road rage, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in a [...]
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According to the Palm Beach Post, three people, including a Fort Lauderdale police officer, were transported to a hospital on Tuesday morning, July 12, 2011, after their vehicles collided in front of Fort Lauderdale City Hall.
The police officer’s patrol car had front-end damage. A Lincoln Navigator SUV involved in the crash was on its side. The other vehicle involved was [...]
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