Date: 05/03/2012
Time: Around 5:00 P.M.
Location: Near Plantation Bay, Florida
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford F-350, Toyota Avalon
By FlaglerLive
"(censored), 76, a resident of Plantation Bay, died on May 4 from
injuries sustained Thursday evening in a two-vehicle wreck just outside
Plantation bay, where authorities said she lived. (censored), 68, who
was riding with her, died on May 9 after battling critical injuries for
four days.
The two women were involved in a violent crash between their Toyota
and a pick-up truck hauling scrap metal. Look and Teske were airlifted
on separate helicopters to Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach. Paulo
Rodrigues, the 36-year-old driver of the pick-up truck, a Palm Coast
resident according to a Florida Highway Patrol reports, was in serious
condition, and was transported by ground to Florida Hospital Flagler.
U.S. 1 in both directions was closed for three hours for about a mile
on either side of Plantation Bay from the time of the crash, just
before 5 p.m., to 8:22 p.m., by which time Roger’s Towing had cleared
the scene.
The silver Toyota, according to preliminary findings by Florida
Highway Patrol investigators at the scene, was stopped at the Stop sign
on Plantation Bay and U.S.1. The Ford F-350 pick-up truck was traveling
north on U.S. 1, in the outside lane. The Toyota attempted to pull out
onto the southbound lanes of U.S. 1, crossing the northbound lanes and
making a left-hand turn. The Toyota “violated the right-of-way of the
F-350 Ford pick-up truck, at which point they made impact on U.S. 1.,”
an FHP investigator said.
The truck’s scrap metal remained contained. But the violence of the
impact embedded the truck’s front bender into the driver’s side of the
Toyota, where it remained when wreckers separated the truck and the car.
The car’s roof had been sheared off and its passenger side door cut and
lifted to give rescuers access to the victims. The Toyota’s steering
wheel was cut off and laid by the side of the road."
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