Five people have been hospitalized, including three children, after a boat collided with a docked vessel Saturday night in North Miami Beach.
The incident happened before 8 p.m. near Maule Lake and was caught on surveillance footage, according to reporting from Channel 10 News. A boat operator with seven passengers struck a docked boat. Everyone on board was ejected.
Good Samaritans rushed to help get people out of the water before first responders arrived, witnesses told local media.
First responders were called out to a five-story Fort Lauderdale apartment building Thursday for reports about a fire.
The blaze broke out around 3:30 a.m. and one unit’s balcony appeared entirely engulfed by flames in online videos. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire in about 20 minutes, according to reporting from Channel 10 News.
No injuries were reported, however, officials told the media outlet that a resident and one cat were inside the unit. The resident was evacuated and the pet was rescue by firefighters and is doing “OK,” a spokesperson said.
A man’s viral video where he jokingly claims he fell and will sue for millions of dollars has gained traction online, but the video highlights serious safety concerns that can have long-lasting effects for actual victims.
In the video, which has over 115,000 likes and hundreds of comments and shares, the man can be seen admitting that he rolled his ankle at the edge of a sidewalk where a deep sinkhole had been concealed beneath artificial grass.
“I rolled my ankle right here and am asking for $36 million from the city,” he said in a caption on the screen. “Not because I fell, but because I spilled my coffee that was $9.”
A 6-month-old baby girl in Texas was killed after her family’s dog attacked her earlier this month.
The attack happened on Tuesday, April 1 just before 4 p.m. at an apartment complex in Baytown, a city that is about a 30-mile drive east of Downtown Houston. The dog involved is allegedly a 1-year-old red-collared pit bull mix who animal control has already taken custody of along with another pit bull mix. Since the attack, the family has agreed to sign a surrender order, which would allow the city to euthanize the dog, according to multiple media outlets.
Only the red-collared pit bull was involved in the attack. The second dog was inside a kennel at the time of the incident.
One of two motorcyclists has died after the two crashed into a concrete wall, causing them to be thrown over a Florida highway overpass.
The incident happened just after 9 p.m. Monday near Orlando on Interstate 4. The pair were riding alongside one another on separate motorcycles when taking an exit ramp towards Maitland Boulevard. The highway curves right at this juncture and, according to reporting from The Miami Herald, the two failed to make the turn. Both crashed into a concrete wall over were thrown from their bikes over the edge of the overpass to land in the grass below.
The woman, a 25-year-old Kissimmee woman, died at the scene. The 34-year-old Orlando man, who was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, was transported to the hospital in critical condition. The woman was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
A Florida man who was accused of crashing into a motorcyclist before plowing into a Good Samaritan in a deadly crash was sentenced Wednesday, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.
The 41-year-old driver was charged with two counts of driving under the influence manslaughter, vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death. On Wednesday, he was sentenced to five terms of life in prison by the State Attorney’s Office for the 18th Judicial Circuit. These sentences will run concurrently.
The incident happened in March 2021 on S.R. 46 in Sanford, about 25 miles north of Orlando. The man allegedly hit the motorcyclist then, while doing a U-turn, hit a one in a group of Good Samaritans who were trying to render aid, according to the newspaper. After hitting Campbell, the driver drove off the side of the road until he hit a fence and came to a stop in a trench.
A 71-year-old golf cart driver died following a crash at a senior living community in which another driver took the red light, according to officials with the Florida Highway Patrol.
The woman died from her injuries around 8 a.m. Wednesday near Sun City Center, a 55+ community with chains in other states such as South Carolina, Texas, Nevada, Georgia and more. The woman had the green light when she was crossing Sun City Center Boulevard, a six-lane road, in a Yamaha golf cart.
A 31-year-old driver in a Ramp ProMaster van did not stop at the red light and hit the woman, causing a fatal T-bone accident, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.
A bus driver accused in the shooting deaths of two passengers following an argument should never have had a gun on board the day of the incident, officials say.
“Transit operators are not allowed to be armed,” Juan Mendieta, a spokesperson for Miami-Dade’s Department of Transportation and Public Works, told reporters with The Miami Herald.
This rule prohibits drivers from taking firearms with them to work even if they are legally allowed to carry them, reporters said in the article.
Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office are investigating after the body of a man was found at a bridge construction site Tuesday in Palmetto Bay.
Officials were called out to the scene, the construction site for the Southwest 87th Avenue bridge over the Cutler Drain Canal, around 6:30 a.m. The body was found by a construction worker and reported to police.
The man was found in a ditch with water and was not wearing a shirt when he was found.
A 72-year-old from Rhode Island has been accused of sexually abusing a child in a lazy river at an Orlando, Florida, resort, according to reporting from the Miami Herald.
William Francis Chatel faces charges of lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 years of age.
The first incident happened on March 9 when the girl said a man, later identified by police as Chattel, came up to the child and assaulted her at least twice over the course of her family’s stay at the resort, reporters said in the article. The child later reported the incidents to a parent who allegedly filmed him attempting to swim up to two other unaccompanied children in the lazy river.
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