Dr. Jovan Rembert, founder and principal of West Park Preparatory School in West Park, died on Thursday, March 5, after being struck by a car following a bus crash. Authorities say the accident happened around 2:30 PM along West Hallandale Beach Boulevard and Southwest 40th Avenue. When Rembert heard one of his school buses had…
On Friday, March 6, Joshua Carver, 20, died in a motorcycle accident after an SUV cut in front of his bike. Officials say the accident happened at Cox Road and Fisherman’s Place in Cocoa. Carver was riding northbound on Cox Rd. when a southbound Chevrolet SUV driven by 74-year-old Robert Jones tried to make a…
Three people were killed and two more were injured in a 7-vehicle pileup on I-75 in Sarasota on Monday, March 9. Authorities say the massive accident happened near Exit 210 at Fruitville Road on Monday morning. Seven vehicles were involved, including a cement mixer. Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) are still working to determine exactly what…
Melissa Hicks Nault, 38, of Callahan, died on Thursday night, February 27, after being struck by a car on US 301. Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) officials say the accident happened near Janes Lane. Nault was driving behind a Toyota 4Runner that came upon two horses standing in the southbound lane. The 4Runner’s driver was unable…
On Friday, February 21, Robert M. Strickler, 83, who was visiting from York, Pennsylvania, died in a boat crash in the Florida Keys. Authorities say Strickler’s boat was anchored while he fished, and was struck by another boat running on autopilot. The operator of that boat and a passenger, as well as the operator of…
Thomas Eades, 63, of Tequestra died on Wednesday, February 19, when his motorcycle was rear-ended on the Turnpike in Palm Beach County. Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) officials say the three-vehicle wreck happened around 6:40 PM, near mile marker 81 and the Atlantic Avenue exit. Eades was riding a 2019 Harley-Davidson Road Glide behind a 2006…
A Disney vacation ended in tragedy for a Massachusetts family on Tuesday, February 18. Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) officials say that Julie Smith, 41, of Whitman, Massachusetts, her five-year-old daughter, Scarlett, her 11-year-old son, Jaxon, and her mother, Josephine Fay, 76, all died after a pickup truck collided with the back of their van. The…
Maria Yohany Alvarez Jimenez, 26, was killed in Boca Raton on Saturday, February 15, after a car struck the bicycle she was riding. Officials from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBCSO) say Alvarez Jiminez was heading west across State Road 7 north of Palmetto Park Road, not long after 9 PM. She was struck…
An early morning accident on Interstate 95 in Miami led to the death of a worker doing construction nearby on Sunday, February 16. Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) officials say the accident happened around 2 AM on Sunday, in the southbound lanes near 62nd Street. They report that a black SUV crashed into a white Toyota…
On Thursday evening, February 13, rescue crews transported a woman to a local hospital after she was struck by a Broward County Transit bus in Fort Lauderdale. Officials say the accident happened on the overpass with Interstate 95, around 9:20 PM. According to their report, the woman was crossing the overpass when the bus hit…
