Kendrick, FL – Four People, Two Children, Injured in Tow Truck Accident
By: FL Accident News Blog as Blog Post
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Kendrick, FL (June 20, 2018) – Four people received injuries in a tow truck accident that took place in Kendrick last night on Northwest Gainesville Road. Two of the people injured were identified as children.
The Florida Highway Patrol responded and said that the injured parties were immediately taken to Ocala Regional Medical Center. Three of the people injured, an Ocala woman and her two children under two years of age, were in the vehicle. They are now in critical condition due to their injuries. The two children were transferred to another hospital for treatment.
The two children were identified as Delay Rocker and Ivyana Rocker, a brother and sister.
The accident happened around 7:48 p.m. last night in the 6400 block of Northwest Gainesville Road. The driver of the tow truck told troopers that he was approaching a left-hand curve and the vehicle was in his lane. He was unable to avoid the collision by swerving to the left. The two vehicles then collided head-on.
The responders who arrived at the scene had to perform an extrication on the vehicle to reach the injured passengers. Nobody was wearing seatbelts and troopers said that there were no car seats in the vehicle at the time.
The accident is still under investigation.
As of 2017, there were about 400,000 car accidents in Florida just for that year alone. Many of these accidents were due to preventable causes such as distracted driving, excessive speed, drowsy driving, and more.
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