State road 50 in the west at westbound lanes are closed because officers are rerouting traffic around the crash tight. Summer knowles, wesh 2 news. Jim not long before that crash, police in titusville were called to another accident that injured an eightyearold boy who was riding a bicycle. This is a picture taken of the scene from the titusville fire department. A vehicle hit the child at alpine lane and delespine avenue. Firefighters say the boy was conscious. Police later found the vehicle and driver they believe to be involved. Meredith more breaking news right now in kansas where the death toll continues to rise after a series of attacks at an industrial plant. The suspect is a worker at an excel Industries Plant in the town of hesston, in South Central kansas. That s just north of wichita. That business makes lawn mower products. The sheriff there confirms it is one of the crime scenes that s left up to seven People Killed and 20 injured. Investigators aren t saying how many of t
S department has worked 75 heroin over dose cases that resulted in eight deaths. One official told us the alleged drug dealers clearly have the skills to operate a legitimate business. Michelle meredith, wesh 2 news. Angela an ohio pharrell board has decided to separate a man who is captured 62 years escaping from prison. He had run off from the shawshank prison in ohio 1959. He had been held for running over and killing a man. He was reimprisoned last may. Jim we are learning more information about an i4 worker who was killed while on the job yesterday. Angela it happened just before noon in a construction area near i4 and the maitland boulevard exit. Wesh 2 s amanda ober is live. Amanda, this man had a dump truck back over him . Amanda that is what happened who was killed was a father of three children and that he was only on this job about a month, a job he was very excited to have. Meantime you may have noticed there has been no activity at any of the i4 construction site today. Th
Reviewing access and how we control dump trucks coming in and out of the area, but certainly we don t want to look at just that. Amanda sgl says it will do a thorough review of all of its safety procedures, and i4 work may resume friday, or not until next week. The florida Highway Patrol is investigating the accident and says the backup warning beeper on the truck was sounding when it backed over franklin, but other details of what lead to the tragedy are being investigated by both fhp and osha. As for the work stoppage, the Florida Department of transportation tells wesh two news, ensuring safety is its top priority and it claims meantime, the sgl safety standdown will not impact the project S Construction schedule, which concludes in 2021. Franklin, had three children ages 10, 13 and 15 who live with their mother in southwest florida. A relative told me over the phone, franklin was excited to have this new construction job, a job he d been on for only about a month. As for the dump t
Maitland boulevard. We want people to feel this is a safe project, and this was a terrible tragedy. And everybody is feeling the effects of it. Amanda sgl says workers were offered grief counseling. Hourly employees were told to take the day off with pay. Supervisors and salaried workers still reported but with a different focus. Certainly we re going to be , reviewing access and how we control dump trucks coming in and out of the area, but certainly we don t want to look at just that. Amanda sgl says it will do a thorough review of all of it s safety procedures and i4 work may resume friday, or not until next week. The florida Highway Patrol is investigating the accident and says the backup warning beeper on the truck was sounding when it backed over franklin, but other details of what lead to the tragedy are being investigated by both fhp and osha. Florida department of transportation tells wesh 2 news ensuring safety is its top priority. It claims meantime, the, sgl safety standdown
Time to grade and managers time to investigate. The incident only only happen in a staging area near maintenance a week reached out to bosses that fdot to find out why all 21 miles at a stop work. Wise the entire project shutdown . That was the determination that the joint venture made. As far as the Florida Department stamford, safety is important to us and if the joint venture feels this is what they need to do to make sure the corridor is safe for the public and workers, then we support them. Reporter we took kept pressing about the notion and asked when the project could start up again. I got safety statistics for the company here. We are putting that together now for Eyewitness News at 5 at the live in Orange County, and tim barber, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We turn to breaking news and winter park where police are investigating why an suv crashed into a Boston Market and caused a gas leak from sky suv sticking out of the restaurant. Police say neither the female driver nor resta