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Strengthening U.S. dollar may lower gas prices in Palm Beach, Treasure Coast

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by TCPalm.com

A transportation watchdog hopes that a slight strengthening of the U.S. dollar in the past week will eventually curb the rising price of gas for homeowners and motorists.

But for now, the price at the pump continues to rise.

In Florida, a gallon of regular was selling on average for $2.80, up 2 cents from a week earlier, according to AAA Auto Club South.
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Hobe Sound crash on U.S. 1 kills two

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 by Julius Whigham

HOBE SOUND — Two women were killed this afternoon in a vehicle crash on U.S. 1, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.

Katleen Bridgit Lacovara, 52, of Hobe Sound and Florence A. Wise, 73, of Hobe Sound both sustained fatal injuries after their vehicles collided on U.S. 1 shortly after 1 p.m., the FHP news release said.

According to the release, Lacovara was traveling northbound on U.S. 1, just north of Heritage Road when her 2004 Saturn Sedan began to veer partially onto the east shoulder of U.S. 1. Lacovara over corrected the steering direction, causing her vehicle to veer in a westerly direction and into the southbound lanes of U.S. 1. The sedan crossed the grass median and into the path of Wise’s 2001 Mercury Van.

Wise’s van struck the right side of Lacovara’s sedan. Lacovara died at the scene. Wise was transported to the Martin Memorial South hospital, where she later died, the release said.

Four injured in fiery, four-car crash in Hobe Sound

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 by TCPalm.com

HOBE SOUND — Four people were injured in a fiery four-car crash at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Heritage Boulevard about 7 p.m. Monday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

One person had to be extricated from a vehicle, and one was flown to the trauma center at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach.

According to the report, the crash happened when a 2001 Pontiac sedan operated by Chester A. Ash, 20, of Port St. Lucie, turned left from the southbound lane toward Heritage Boulevard without yielding to oncoming traffic.
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Stuart detectives seek family of homeless pedestrian killed in car crash

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by TCPalm.com

STUART — Investigators said they are trying to learn more about a homeless man killed in a car crash last month.

Thomas Patrick Collins, 67, was killed while on foot in the Dec. 18 traffic accident in the 700 block of South Federal Highway, police said.

Detectives have been unable to locate any of Collins’ relatives. Anyone with information about Collins should contact Detective Derek Ortado at (772) 220-3906.

By Lamaur Stancil

Vero Beach woman charged with DUI and child neglect

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

Blanca Juarez

Blanca Juarez


INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A canal crash led to drunken driving and child neglect charges for a motorist Saturday, authorities said.

The Florida Highway Patrol charged Blanca Idalia Juarez, 25, of the 500 block of 13th Place, Vero Beach, with driving while under the influence, two counts of child neglect and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer. She posted $12,500 bail Sunday.
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Motorcyclist crashes in Port St. Lucie, flown to trauma center

Monday, December 28th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

PORT ST. LUCIE — A motorcycle rider was flown to a provisional
trauma center early Monday after a crash at Southwest Alcantarra and
Southwest Port St. Lucie boulevards, a St. Lucie County Fire District
spokeswoman said.

Fire district crews responded at 2:08 a.m., and found the motorcycle
rider, a man in his early 40s, on the ground near the motorcycle, Fire
District spokeswoman Catherine Chaney said. (more…)

Attorneys want to question Stuart sports bar staff about 3 teens killed in alcohol-related crash

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

STUART — Attorneys in a wrongful death lawsuit filed shortly after the Aug. 4 Cove Road collision that killed three teenagers want to question staff at BJ’s Sports Bar and Grill in Stuart on duty the evening leading up to the late night crash.

Passengers Connor W. Graver, 16, Christopher H. Briglio, 18, and driver Nicholas P. Coady, also 18, died Aug. 4 after their Jeep slammed into a front end loader on Southeast Cove Road that was working as part of a road construction project in the area south of Stuart.

Graver’s parents, on behalf of their son Conner, were the first to sue Sheltra & Son Construction Co., claiming the Indiantown company failed to safely maintain the area where the crash occurred.
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New traffic management system will keep traffic flowing on I-95 through Treasure Coast

Monday, December 14th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

Donnatt Forrester, a senior operator working in the Palm Beach SMART SunGuide Transportation Management Center in West Palm Beach, monitors Thursday afternoon traffic on the bank of screens at the front of the control room. By the end of 2010, the system will be replicated along the Treasure Coast, with the base of operations in Fort Pierce monitoring 71 miles of Interstate 95 with 60 cameras, 98 traffic sensors, 12 dynamic message boards and Road Rangers.

Donnatt Forrester, a senior operator working in the Palm Beach SMART SunGuide Transportation Management Center in West Palm Beach, monitors Thursday afternoon traffic on the bank of screens at the front of the control room. By the end of 2010, the system will be replicated along the Treasure Coast, with the base of operations in Fort Pierce monitoring 71 miles of Interstate 95 with 60 cameras, 98 traffic sensors, 12 dynamic message boards and Road Rangers.

WEST PALM BEACH — In an auditorium-size room that looks a lot like NASA Mission Control, four men talk into headsets, type away on computer terminals and watch nine video screens showing sections of Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County.

“Yeah, it’s calm right now,” said Bob Murphy, operations project manager at the SunGuide Transportation Management Center, “but that can change quickly. It’s feast or famine. On a sunny, beautiful day you can have tragedy happen in an instant; or it can start off small and get really big really quick.” (more…)

Stuart hit-and-run driver had five times legal alcohol limit in blood, police say

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 by TCPalm.com

STUART — A Stuart motorist who sideswiped a vehicle in traffic was arrested with a blood alcohol level of 0.402, five times higher than the legal limit, on Monday at 5:50 p.m., police said.

Terrance Jay Larsen, 50, of 4645 S.E. Circle Way, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, DUI with property damage and fleeing a law enforcement officer, according to Stuart Police Sgt. Martin J. Jacobson.
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Road rage: Motorist attacked, robbed at Port St. Lucie intersection, report says

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 by TCPalm.com

PORT ST. LUCIE — Police are searching for two men involved in a road rage incident and robbery last week.

A motorist said he was traveling westbound on Southeast Tiffany Avenue behind a white Ford F-150 with an extended cab about 7:40 p.m. Thursday, Port St. Lucie police said. The pickup was driving less than 15 miles an hour, which prompted the motorist to flash his lights at it, according to the incident report. The pickup also wouldn’t allow the motorist to pass, he told police.

When they reached the stoplight at Southeast Lennard Road, two men stepped out of the pickup and confronted the other motorist, police said. The men pulled the motorist out of his vehicle, punched him repeatedly and stole his wallet, police said.
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