Early Saturday morning, a 15-year-old Wellington High School sophomore was killed in a car crash after the teen hit a bump and lost control of the vehicle, a 2006 Nisson 350. Records show the boy was not wearing a seatbelt and was driving without a license. Florida laws require drivers…
Last Thursday, a 22-year-old Florida man died from injuries he sustained when his parachute failed to open during a military training exercise in Wauchula. A press release from the sheriff’s office said the Marines were jumping from a C130 aircraft when the training accident occurred. Sgt. Jeremiah d. McGraw was…
In Orlando, Florida, a Walt Disney World performer died rehearsing for an Indiana Jones stunt show. Anislav Varbanov, 30, injured himself practicing a tumbling roll before Monday night’s show. He was rushed to the hospital, where the injured employee was pronounced dead at 8:53pm. Disney has announced that it has…
On Friday morning, Florida lifeguards discovered the body of a 37-year-old man who had apparently drowned while scuba diving on his own. The body was found floating roughly 400 meters off the beach at 1301 S. Ocean Drive. Lifeguards pulled the man’s body to shore, where he was pronounced dead.…
At Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida last week, a fatal monorail accident last week killed a 21-year-old employee who was operating the monorail. The accident reportedly occurred when two monorails collided in the Magic Kingdom section of the theme park. Although there have been a few other accidents, including…
The driver of a Honda CRV sustained head injuries in a downtown Miami traffic collision during rush hour last Thursday. That same motor vehicle accident killed a 49-year-old Tampa woman and critically injured her 17-year-old daughter. According to police, the truck crash happened just before 4pm when the Honda was…
In Florida, Emmanual Carry has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of Coral Springs resident Patrick Dameus. Carry, also from Coral Springs, is accused of “intentionally” hitting the 48-year-old man with his 2005 Honda Element more than once before using the vehicle to drag his body 2 ½…
In West Palm Beach, Florida, five people died on the Florida Turnpike on Friday night when the sport utility vehicle they were riding in rolled over after it blew a tire. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver lost control of the Ford Expedition and rolled into a 15-foot…
The Florida parents of Pateesha Clinch, a 12-year-old girl who died while roughhousing with friends at Westview Middle School in September 2007, is suing the Miami-Dade school district for her wrongful death. According to students at the school, the 6th grader struck her head on the side of classroom wall…
A jury in Palm Beach, Florida has awarded the family of Pompano Beach resident Claudia Avila $6.98 Million for her wrongful death. Avila died on February 17, 2004 in Delray Breach when a 34-pound metal plate crashed into the windshield of the motor vehicle she was riding on I-94 and…