You can see the tire marks on this grass. The man was 81yearold howard witt. This is video we got from a witness who heard the crash and ran outside with her cell phone. At one point, you will see authorities breaking the window to get mr. Witt out of the car. Police responded to the call of a single vehicle crash at u. S. 27 and vine street. Detectives discovered the 81yearold of leesburg had been involved in a road rage incident south of the crash site of the motel. After that incident, witnesses told police he was headed north when he veered into oncoming traffic and crashed into a tree. He was later taken to the hospital where he died. Tonight, this is the tree he crashed into. You can still see shattered because the cause of this crash is still under investigation. If anyone saw something and has not reported it, it there asking that you call Leesburg Police immediately. Summer knowles, wesh 2 news. Meredith two weeks after a man is killed outside his Convenience Store in sanford,
Rain showers over the weekend. Dave cocchiarella joins us. Dave clearing conditions throughout the afternoon hours but the big story is the drier air that is about to arrive in Central Florida. We are seeing temperatures generally in the mid to upper 60 s 60 s. We have had some misty conditions, other shots above the sideline visibility s are nine to 10 miles an hour in most locations. Temperatures in the 60 s with the cloud cover only warming into the low 70 s before it is over. Doppler radar is quiet. We have seen a few showers weakening as they do, so low rain chance this morning. South of orlando, by midmorning, the clearing should begin. Breezy conditions will bring in chilly air for the rest as well, sunday night into the beginning of the week. Chris breaking news out of the roads. A crash is blocking northbound hiawassee road. It is in apopka just north of maitland boulevard. At hp is reporting there are injuries in this crash. A car slammed into a tree. We will bring more to yo
Rm out there. The fog will stay with us till about 8 00 or 9 00 in the morning. We are warmer than we should be for this time of year. The visibility is down to about half a mile in orlando. About half a mile in melbourne as well. It will take a while for that to burn out, and once it does, we will see mostly cloudy skies and some showers in the forecast this afternoon. 61 at daytona beach. 61 in the melbourne area. First alert doppler is rather quiet right now. This of showers will come in off the gulf of mexico at around 2 00 or 4 00 this afternoon. The early part of the day is the best part chance for thunderstorms. On sunday, we will look towards some drier conditions. I will have that for you in the sevenday forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Michelle right now, the the search is on for the suspect in a shocking and disturbing case of repeated rape. Your help to find 18yearold terrell williamson. Deputies say, daria hill held the victim down and watched, while williamson re
Investigators think happened . Amanda the amtrak train, 98, board and was heading from miami to new york when the crew says it struck a person who appeared to lay his head down on the track. There is another amtrak train passing through right now. The train came to a stop. Emergency responders were called and the person who was hit was there s no information indicating anyone on board the train was harmed and as is usually the case, the train and the passengers remained here while the investigation took place. They were stopped for over 3 hours. It finally departed about 10 minutes ago. One woman who was scheduled to catch the next amtrak train came to the scene to see what the delay was and was saddened to learn what had happened. It s sad, it s really unfortunate, i don t know the details about this but if somebody did this on purpose i feel awful for everybody, especially the crew. Amanda we don t yet know the identity of the person killed. This incident did impact traffic here down
Area right now. Meteorologist eric burris is tracking it. Eric . If youre headed out tonight, you can keep track of the rain with the first tonight considerable cloudiness then becoming mostly cloudy in the late evening and chance of showers and a slight chance of evening thunderstorms. Then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Sunday mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. Breezy. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Sunday night partly cloudy. Cooler. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Monday sunny. Cooler. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Monday night clear in the evening then becoming if youre headed out tonight, you can keep track of the rain with the first alert weather app. Its free in the app store and on google play. Just search for wesh. Tonight, the