Category: Crime and Public Safety

A garbage truck slammed into an 83-year-old bicyclist on Florida’s Turnpike in Davie early Friday morning, killing him, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The accident occurred a little after 5 a.m., when the 83-year-old man from Lauderhill was riding his bicycle southbound in the outside travel lane of the turnpike, south of Interstate 595, according to an FHP media release. The roadway is a “limited access facility,” and riding a bicycle there is illegal. A 48-year old man from Lauderdale Lakes was driving the garbage truck southbound in the same lane when he hit the rear end of the...

A driver was met with a spray of bullets while merging onto Interstate 95 in Oakland Park during Friday morning rush hour, according to Florida Highway Patrol. A little before 9 a.m., FHP received a call about a “possible road rage incident resulting in a shooting,” according to a media release. The driver was merging onto the highway from Oakland Park Boulevard in a gray Chevy, heading north, when a person inside a black Honda Civic with a temporary license plate shot at the Chevy multiple times, hitting the passenger side. The shooter then fled. The driver survived largely unscathed, but...