UPDATE: ONE MAN SPEEDING IN A SILVER MERCEDES IS DEAD. HERE’S WHAT POLICE SAY HAPPENED.
BY: TRAFFIC CENTER | BocaNewsNow.com
UPDATE: Florida Highway Patrol tells BocaNewsNow.com just after 5 p.m. that the Turnpike is now open again. Here’s what investigators say happened.
Vehicle one, a 2020 Silver Mercedes Benz C63 Coupe, was traveling at an excessively fast rate of speed upon the inside paved shoulder of southbound State Road 91 (Florida’s Turnpike) south of State Road 804 (Boynton Beach Boulevard). V-2, a 2016 Freightline Tractor hauling a trailer, was traveling south upon the center lane of southbound State Road 91 south of State Road 804. V-1 was rapidly approaching the location of V-2. Driver One, an unidentified white male is now dead, failed to maintain control of V-1. V-1 began to travel in a southwest direction. V-1 traveled through the inside lane and entered the center southbound lane of southbound State Road 91. Subsequently, the front of V-1 collided with the rear of V-2’s trailer.
Due to the offsetting height. V-1 traveled under V-2’s trailer, and V-1 became entangled with the rear of V-2’s trailer. Post collision, V-2 was driven to a controlled stop onto the outside paved shoulder of southbound State Road 91 with V-1 entangled with V-2’s trailer.
BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The Florida Turnpike is closed southbound in the area of Boynton Beach Blvd. due to a fatal crash involving a tractor trailer. The crash was first reported just before noon. The road is officially closed as of 2:30 p.m.
BocaNewsNow.com will have a full update a little later this afternoon about what happened and who was killed. Expect the turnpike to be closed for several hours southbound, with northbound “gaper” delays also causing problems.
As of 2:30 p.m., the southbound delays pass the Lantana service plaza.
