Speeding car goes airborne, launches into roof of Manatee County fire station, FHP says Ryan Ballogg, The Bradenton Herald Dec. 21—A Sarasota man was critically injured after his speeding car launched into the air, hit a tree and crashed into the roof of a fire station in the University Park area of Manatee County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The accident happened just before 6 a.m. Sunday. Troopers say that a 41-year-old Sarasota man was speeding north on Honore Avenue in a 2011 Kia Optima. As the sedan approached a curve, it left the roadway and hit a concrete culvert.