A 60-year-old Acreage woman died when a 17-year-old male stole a car at a Jupiter gas station, fled from police, raced down the Delray Highway, ran a red light and slammed into her vehicle, authorities said.
Deborah Eber was killed at about when her 2016 Toyota Corolla was struck by a 2015 Acura driven by the teen, according to a Palm Beach County sheriff’s report.
The Palm Beach Post is not naming the 17-year old driver, who also resides in Acreage, because he had not been criminally charged as an adult. The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office will decide whether to file those charges, and there was no indication what those charges would be.
One of Eber’s family members said the family was too distraught to talk about its loss. He said Eber was married with two sons and a daughter and had two grandchildren, with one on the way.
While the PBSO report, posted, covers only the crash, a Palm Beach Gardens police sergeant said his department spotted the car on the Delray Highway after Jupiter police had broadcast that they were searching for a stolen vehicle. The crash occurred moments later, police authorities said.
A Jupiter police spokeswoman said the car was stolen from the Chevron gas station at Alternate State Road A1A and Indiantown Road, just west of the Intracoastal Waterway bridge. She said the owner had walked inside the gas station and left the Acura running.
Officers spotted the stolen Acura traveling west on Indiantown Road and tried to pull it over. The driver did not stop, instead accelerated onto southbound Interstate 95, where officers lost sight of the vehicle. The vehicle later was seen exiting the interstate eastbound on Donald Ross Road.
It traveled south on Central Boulevard into Palm Beach Gardens, whose police department took over the search, the spokeswoman said. The vehicle was spotted traveling west on PGA Boulevard near Florida’s Turnpike.
Eber was declared dead at the scene. She was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, according to a sheriff’s crash report said.
The 17-year-old male and a 14-year-old male in his car both were taken to an undisclosed hospital. The PBSO report said the driver suffered serious injuries and his passenger had minor injuries.
The PBSO report does not indicate that either drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash.
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Accident attorney Jason Weisser of Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller and Overbeck responded to this unfortunate crash. “This is a serious accident resulting in a fatality. We hope the investigators can quickly determine what caused the accident. Please be careful and obey the speed limits whenever you are driving a motorcycle, car, SUV or truck. We hope that all parties involved consult with an experienced trial lawyer. If you have been injured in an accident, call my office for a free consultation and find out what your rights are.”
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A 12-year-old girl died in a four-vehicle crash in Boca Raton that police suspect was the result of drug use.
The girl, identified as a 12-year old of Hobe Sound, died after the crash that happened in the eastbound lanes of Boca Raton near Wellington Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol and the Delray Medical Examiner’s Office.
Drug use is suspected in the crash that remains under investigation, the Florida Highway Patrol said. No charges were have been filed yet as police are still investigating.
A 48-year old of Rivera Beach rear-ended a 2007 Jeep Liberty driven by a 41-year old of River Park. The impact pushed the Jeep into the rear end of a 2012 Subaru Forester driven by a 31-year old of Fort Pierce.
Debris from the crashes struck a 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven 49-year-old.
The 48-year old was hospitalized with injuries. An 11-year-old boy in her passenger seat was also brought to the hospital for his injuries. A two-year-old boy in a front-facing child seat was taken by helicopter to University Hospitals in Martin County.
Another 12-year old, seated behind the 48-year old suffered severe injuries, was extricated from the SUV. The 12-year-old was taken by helicopter to Broward County Hospital where she later died.
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Accident attorney Jason Weisser of Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller and Overbeck responded to this unfortunate crash. “This is a serious accident resulting in several serious injuries. We hope the investigators can quickly determine what caused the accident. Please be careful and obey the speed limits whenever you are driving a motorcycle, car, SUV or truck. We hope that all parties involved consult with an experienced trial lawyer. If you have been injured in an accident, call my office for a free consultation and find out what your rights are.”
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Police authorities and the Florida Highway Patrol officials have identified a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle in Delray Beach.
Police said that John Kenneth Kirby, 64, was crossing North Federal Highway with a friend when he stepped into the path of an oncoming Jeep Wrangler. He died at the scene. The Jeep’s driver was identified as a 37-year old man of Delray Beach.
His 59-year old friend from Palm Beach Gardens who he was with happened to be very fortunate as he didn’t sustain any form of injuries. A witness who was present at the time if the incident said.
The investigation into the crash remains open, police authorities and the Florida Highway Patrol officials said in a statement.
Investigators and the Florida Highway Patrol officials say Kirby had been staying at the Motel & More Hotel on Federal but mostly had been homeless. He has no known family, a Delray Beach police spokeswoman said.
It is not yet certain what has lead to the crash, a Palm Beach County police sergeant told the post.
Anyone with information about Kirby’s relatives is asked to call Delray Beach police investigator.
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Accident attorney Jason Weisser of Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller and Overbeck responded to this unfortunate crash. “This is a serious accident resulting in a fatality. We hope the investigators can quickly determine what caused the accident. Please be careful and obey the speed limits whenever you are driving a motorcycle, car, SUV or truck. We hope that all parties involved consult with an experienced trial lawyer. If you have been injured in an accident, call my office for a free consultation and find out what your rights are.”
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Authorities say a mother of the 29-year old, was killed when two teens fleeing in a stolen car ran a red light and slammed into her Chevrolet Malibu along Beeline Highway near Palm Beach Gardens.
“Senseless,” the 29-year old woman said with a sob.
“This was so senseless. She was innocent.”
“She was running errands after work,” her daughter said. “She was shopping. She was on her way home. The road she travels every single day.”
The 60-year-old medical transcriptionist from Acreage was married and a mother of three and grandmother of two, with one on the way.
“We want justice served for her,” her 29-year old daughter said.
Authorities could not immediately provide an update on either the conditions or arrest status of the 17-year-old male they say drove the stolen car, or the 14-year-old male who was a passenger in the car. Both were taken to an undisclosed hospital after the crash, the driver, also an Acreage resident, with serious injuries and his passenger, of Haverhill, with minor injuries.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office said no charges have been filed as the agency investigates the crash. Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens police have not yet said anything about criminal charges in the car theft and chase.
The Palm Beach Post is not naming the teens because neither has not been criminally charged as an adult.
According to authorities, a woman left her Acura running as she stepped inside at a gas station in Jupiter, and the teens jumped in the car and drove off. It sped west to Interstate 95, then east on Donald Ross Road and south on Central Boulevard into Palm Beach Gardens, where police there spotted the car on the Beeline moments before it crashed into the 60-year old woman’s car near Northlake Boulevard, police said.
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The driver of a stolen car is accused of causing a fiery two-car crash that killed a 21-year-old woman and caused a 17-year-old boy to suffer a spinal fracture.
A 19-year-old of Riviera Beach is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault and several other charges.
The 19-year old is being held in the St. Lucie County Jail on $100,000 bond after his first court appearance. The crash killed a 21-year old passenger of another car.
The crash happened on East 143rd Street and White City Avenue.
The 19-year old was driving a 2016 Toyota Camry reported stolen from Lakewood Park. A witness told police that they saw the car flying around the corner of East 150th Street and Port St. Lucie Avenue, according to police.
The 19-year old sped through a stop sign driving south on East 143rd Street. He smashed into a 27-year old man’s 2009 Infiniti G37 that was driving eastbound. The 27-year old did not have a stop sign the intersection, court records say.
St. Lucie County police officers on patrol spotted smoke coming from the area and initially thought a house was on fire, according to police reports.
The officers saw the crash and heard someone screaming from inside’s the car of the 19-year old, according to police reports. One officer pulled the 19-year old from the car and dragged him onto a nearby porch, police reports say. Another officer checked the 27-year old man’s car. The man was unconscious and his 21-year-old female passenger was severely injured. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers ran back to the car of the 19-year old after it burst into flames and after seeing the 17-year-old boy was trapped in the backseat, police reports say.
An officer unsuccessfully tried to break a side window. Another officer broke the back windshield, grabbed a garden hose from a nearby home and tried to extinguish the fire, according to police reports.
The car became engulfed in flames. An officer cut off the teen’s seatbelt and two officers pulled him from the car, according to police reports.
Meanwhile, the car of the 27-year old caught fire while he was still trapped in the front seat. Other officers and firefighters arrived, put the fire out and pulled him from the front seat, according to police.
They were all taken to a nearby hospital, the post reports.
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“A drunk driver speeding down a two-lane highway at 85+ mph in the wrong lane around a blind corner destroyed my family,” writes a 56-year old Indian River County man.
The father of four posted a series of photos on Facebook from the funeral of wife and his unborn daughter. His wife was 36 weeks pregnant, reports the Florida Highway Patrol.
They were killed in Vero Beach, when a 28-year-old man, who was allegedly drunk, crashed his BMW head-on into the woman’s minivan. The post reports the her husband was on the phone with his wife as the crash happened and heard her scream. “I put those pictures up so everyone can see the nightmare that I’m living,” he tells the news reporters.
The driver of the BMW was charged with a DUI and charges are pending for vehicular homicide. A court date has not been set at this time. Police are still investigating the crash.
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Accident attorney Jason Weisser of Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller and Overbeck responded to this unfortunate crash. “This is a serious accident resulting in fatalities. We hope the investigators can quickly determine what caused the accident. Please be careful and obey the speed limits whenever you are driving a motorcycle, car, SUV or truck. We hope that all parties involved consult with an experienced trial lawyer. If you have been injured in an accident, call my office for a free consultation and find out what your rights are.”
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A pedestrian accident in Wellington left a woman dead. The violent aftermath of the crash left the driver of the flatbed tow truck in critical condition and another man in police custody.
Authorities say that after the woman was struck by the truck, a man with her engaged in an altercation with the tow truck driver, stabbing him multiple times in the abdomen,the post reports.
While police have not confirmed the relationship between the man and the woman, the man yelled, “You killed my mom,” while allegedly attacking the tow truck driver, the post reports.
The accident happened as the woman and man tried to cross Interstate 95 at Riviera Beach, according to reports. One witness tells the post, “The son went crazy” after the accident, adding that the man chased the driver around the truck while stabbing him. “I didn’t see her. I didn’t see her,” the driver reportedly said during the alleged attack.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was taken to a hospital in critical condition. And the man was arrested. An investigation is ongoing.
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Accident attorney Jason Weisser of Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller and Overbeck responded to this unfortunate crash. “This is a serious accident resulting in several serious injuries. We hope the investigators can quickly determine what caused the accident. Please be careful and obey the speed limits whenever you are driving a motorcycle, car, SUV or truck. We hope that all parties involved consult with an experienced trial lawyer. If you have been injured in an accident, call my office for a free consultation and find out what your rights are.”
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A 36-year-old Port Salerno man and a 40-year-old Jupiter Island man are dead after they both crashed their motorcycles in a crash involving a tractor trailer in North River Shores.
Two Lake County men are dead after crashing their motorcycles, Martin County police authorities said.
The crash occurred on the 6300 block of Hobe Sound between Sewall’s point and Palm City roads.
A 36-year old of Port Salerno and a 40-year old of Jupiter Island, were riding together when the crash happened, Florida Highway Patrol officials said. They were heading westbound on Hobe Sound when they failed to negotiate a curve in the road. They both had a head-on crash with a tractor trailer, the news release states.
Both of the victim’s motorcycles crashed off the left side of the road, police said. The 40-year old was pronounced dead at the crash scene. The 36-year old died from his injuries at Delray Medical Center.
Martin County police authorities are working with crash reconstruction teams to investigate the crash. Officials did not provide a preliminary cause of the incident.
The driver of the tractor trailer was uninjured and is currently being questioned by Martin County police authorities.
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A 4-month-old girl died two days after her father crashed into a garbage truck during a chase with Martin County police, who suspected the man of shoplifting food and beer.
The 4-months old daughter of a 31-year old Martin County man, died at a nearby hospital, according to police and the Martin County Medical Examiner. The 31-year old also died in the crash.
The man’s 48-year-old mother was treated and released at the hospital. Her name is not being released because criminal charges are pending against her, police said.
Martin County police said they believe the officer followed police policy during the two-minute chase that topped out at about 60 miles per hour and ended with the car bursting into flames.
The incident began when the 31-year old and his mother separately went into a shop. The 31-year old loaded up his cart, left some items and walked out with steak, lobster tails and beer without paying, police said.
An officer pulled up behind the car, a Chevy Malibu, at the intersection of Hobe Sound. The 31-year old man sped up, turned on several side streets and returned to Stuart Avenue. He turned right on Palm City, skidded and slammed into the garbage truck, according to police dashboard camera video.
The driver’s side door slammed into the truck at the end of the two-mile chase. Officers ran to the car, which quickly burst into flames because of a gas leak.
Several officers used handheld fire extinguishers to quell the blaze and realized the 31-year old was dead. They also spotted the 48-year-old woman in the front passenger seat and the 4-month-old in a car seat.
Officers pulled the woman from a car. It took police and firefighters some time to pull the baby out of the car, police said.
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A car driving the wrong way on a toll road smashed into a vehicle carrying five Broward County residents, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The crash occurred on Cooper City Road, a news release says. Troopers received reports a Toyota was driving erratically while heading east when it suddenly turned around and began driving west in the eastbound lanes.
While driving west in the eastbound passing lane, the Toyota crashed head-on into a 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe driven by a 46-year old man of Broward County.
The Tahoe ended up on its right side in the center median, troopers say.
A 42-year old, and a 1-year old were both pronounced dead at the scene. A 12-year old, of Hillsboro Beach, died of her injuries at a hospital. Another 10-year old, was flown to a hospital with serious injuries.
Another 20-year old also is hospitalized with serious injuries.
The driver of the Toyota, a 32-year old man, had to be cut from his vehicle and died of his injuries, FHP say.
The investigation into the crash continues but the Florida Highway Patrol say alcohol is believed to be a factor.
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Accident attorney Jason Weisser of Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller and Overbeck responded to this unfortunate crash. “This is a serious accident resulting in several fatalities. We hope the investigators can quickly determine what caused the accident. Please be careful and obey the speed limits whenever you are driving a motorcycle, car, SUV or truck. We hope that all parties involved consult with an experienced trial lawyer. If you have been injured in an accident, call my office for a free consultation and find out what your rights are.”
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