Category: no seatbelts

Twelve year old Cape Coral girl thrown from SUV and dies in crash • Near Ellenton PRIME OUTLET MALL • EXIT 224

MANATEE COUNTY — A Cape Coral girl died Wednesday after being thrown from a sport utility vehicle on an Interstate 75 overpass and plummeting over a guard rail onto U.S. 301 below, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. The young girl died after being airlifted to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg in critical…

BUS CAR CRASH • Florida student awarded $1.6 MILLION in school bus crash case • PASCO COUNTY

PASCO COUNTY – According to the Tampa Tribune, “A jury deliberated for three hours Monday before finding the Pasco County school district negligent in a 2006 crash that severely injured a 16-year-old boy. The jury awarded the student, now 19, and his parents, $1.625 million in damages, which his mother has said she will use…

Another teen fatality – I-75 near Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in Tampa – NO SEATBELTS – FHP investigation continues

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY – According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 16-year-old died in a single-car crash on Interstate 75 near the junction with Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. The 16-year-old was a passenger in a 2004 Ford Explorer that went out of control and overturned in the median of the interstate. The 2004 Ford Explorer was…