UPDATED FRIDAY
Police have identified the woman killed in a two-car crash Thursday afternoon in southwestern Port St. Lucie.

Zeny M. Silva, 55, was riding in a blue minivan headed east on Southwest Penrose Avenue around 4:45 p.m., said Port St. Lucie spokesman Thomas Nichols. The driver of the minivan, 54-year-old Nelcy Da Silva, ran a stop sign at the intersection with Southwest Rosser Boulevard.

A red Ford pickup driven by 44-year-old Carlos Molina north on Rosser Boulevard hit the passenger side of the minivan and flipped it over onto its hood. Zeny Silva died at the scene and the driver of the minivan , Silva, was flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center by helicopter, Nichols said. Molina was not injured, Nichols said. Rosser Boulevard has been shut down by the wreck.

UPDATE

FORT PIERCE — The elderly man who crossed into the path of an oncoming minivan on Tuesday morning died from his injuries that night, police said.

John Insinga, 93, was trying to cross U.S. 1 heading west when he walked into the path of a minivan traveling south on U.S. 1, police spokeswoman Audria Moore said. (more…)