Hit-and-Run Accident

An Orlando man accused of driving a vehicle that struck and killed a 15-year-old East Orange County boy in 2010 and then fled the scene of the accident is now in jail. The 30-year-old suspect turned himself in to Florida Highway Patrol troopers recently and faces charges of leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, violating a restriction on a driver’s license and failing to stop at a hit-and-run accident involving the death of the teen in November 2010. If convicted on the hit-and-run charge, the man could receive 30 years in prison.

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This article in the Hometown News reports that Florida hit-and-run accidents are on the rise, and one victim is trying to understand how a person could hit him with a vehicle and then flee the scene to avoid responsibility. His ordeal began on Nov. 12 when he was riding his motorcycle to an Ormond Beach restaurant to have dinner with his father and brother. He was attempting to turn into the restaurant’s parking lot when the driver of a dark colored Jeep Grand Cherokee drove onto Clyde Morris from Coquina Point right into his path. With another car on his right side, the motorcyclist had nowhere to go to avoid the accident.
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As reported in the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old London woman died from injuries she suffered in a central Florida hit-and-run motorcycle accident on U.S. Highway 192 in Lake County in August. She was a passenger on a motorcycle and she and the driver were both thrown from the motorcycle when struck by the car.

Officials from the Florida Highway Patrol say that the driver who caused the accident and fled from the scene dragged the victim along the road for more than a quarter of a mile before she became dislodged. There was no indication that the driver attempted to stop after the collision occurred. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the motorcycle’s driver was taken to a hospital with injuries described as serious but stable. Read the rest »