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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PORT ST. LUCIE — Police investigators have been out early this morning at the intersection where a hit-and-run driver struck a 14-year-old boy Monday morning near his bus stop.

The investigators have been asking other students if they saw anything that could locate the driver of the vehicle.

The incident sent the boy to St. Mary’s Medical Center with a fractured pelvis, bruised spleen and punctured lung, though he is expected to make a full recovery, officials said.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 25-year-old Fort Pierce resident was killed Saturday night in a three-vehicle accident in northern St. Lucie County, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.

Juan Alberto Lopez was northbound on King’s Highway just before 10 p.m. when he lost control of his vehicle about 500 feet south of Palomar Parkway and crossed into the southbound lane into the path of two vehicles, according to the report.

The first vehicle, driven by Port St. Lucie resident Lacy Catherine Mahon, 17, swerved and hit the left front of Lopez’ vehicle. Mahon and her passenger, Fort Pierce resident Taryn M. Horvath, also 17, sustained minor injuries.
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