Driver Killed As Speeding Car Slams Into Condo Complex Dumpster
POSTED: 12:57 pm EDT May 17,
2008
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A car speeding down Texas Avenue Saturday morning went out of control, veered into a telephone pole, slammed into a small hill and wound up flipping on top of a dumpster at a condominium complex.The driver, who was near death and had to be cut out of the car, died on the way to the hospital. Witnesses at the Huntington on the Green condos told the Florida Highway Patrol that they saw a passenger jump from the wreck and run off.People who live in the complex says that speeding cars along Texas are a big problem and that it was lucky that children weren't playing in the parking lot when the accident occurred.The FHP would like to talk to the person who ran from the scene. A spokesman on scene said they were checking local hospitals since the passenger was ejected from the car and most likely suffered injuries.The name of the dead driver was not released.
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