Authorities in polk county are searching for the driver in a deadly hitandrun crash. It happened just after midnight. A car veered off state road 60 in lake wales hitting a young woman in a polk county deputy. The woman was killed and a deputy remains in the hospital fox 13s kelly cowan has more. Was safe and she had wrecked her car in this ditch. Smashed, the windshield it landinged on its passenger side. She actually crawled out through the smashed wind scmeld came out into the median to flag somebody down for help. Reporter polk county Deputy Sheriff stopped to help. He immediately called for e. M. S. And the last transmission that he had was at 12 38. E. M. S. Had not anticipated thought they were arriving to assist that woman who was injured in the crash. Instead when they got here they found her, and the deputy in the grass severely injured it. Was quite obvious from the very beginning that they had been struck by a vehicle. Reporter detectives say a vehicle swerved around the de
33yearold jessica enchautegui otero. This is the second one that i lost in this month. My son pass away the 2nd of this month. Now my daughter in the same month. Too much for me. Jessica got into a wreck on state road 60 just east of wales in polk county. Her car hit a driver. She was able to flag an officer for help. Deputy officer pennell turned on his while calling for aid, another driver veered into the median hitting them leaving them both for dead. Jessica later died at the hospital. The deputy suffered severe injuries and is in the hospital recovering. Weve been throughout the lake wales area east and west of this scene. Weve combed the median for any kind of evidence. We are looking for Surveillance Video that might be in the area and asking for the publics help in this case. Members for jessicas son 16 yearold xavier and 11yearold kenny, its tough to hold back the tears knowing their mother is gone. She was my best friend. She was there for me when i needed her the most. She t
Left around here, wind sheer as well limited the growth from this system. As you see on the water vapor imagery that red color around and south of nassau is dry air high above in the atmosphere. I think thats gotten into the storm especially into the western side helping to keep it fairly weak with wind sheer. 30 mileperhour winds says the gusts weve been seeing from the system and you can see that forecast from the Spaghetti Models moves it directly west. Thats been the trend throughout the day. It will likely be very slow to it may help spread some rain our way possibly into the early part of next week. Well check back in with you in a little bit. Meantime Stormy Weather in Sarasota County killed a woman. Lightning struck her in a park inside a gazebo at mlk park on coconut avenue. The woman was homeless and a familiar face in this park and will be missed by those around there. Were still checking with some breaking news, a bad crash in st. Petersburg has traffic on mlk street and 40
Hear a few claps of thunder along i75. 77 in plant city, brooksville youre at 75, lakeland 75, sarasota currently at 76 degrees. Basically dry through the morning. Now, as we head through the afternoon i do expect a good coverage of rain, about a 40 chance and the storms are slow moving. Afternoon high around 89. Coming up in weather and traffic 8s at 4 08 one area in the tropics you attention to. Leslee is tracking the traffic over the roads. Some construction but not too bad. Travel times i4 through plant city things look great. No delays there. Now headed over to a little bit outside here in the polk county area, eastbound i4 right near the polk parkway, got some construction, possible detours in place so keep that in mind. Lets take a look at the hour Howard Frankland bridge. Only 6 minutes to cross it. Back to melanie and gene. Mourning Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez. He was in on on a boat when it crash intoed crashed into a jetty. He was only 24. He came to tampa when he w
On poorly formed invest 99 l. This tropical wave coming into the southern bahamas. But only a 6 chance over the next five days that it will continue to develop. Thats good news. Plus theres Tropical Storm gaston out there. We got the latest information on it. Its expected to regain its category one hurricane status. Strengthening to a category two. Heres bermuda. Its way out to sea and it stays there. Thats good news. When you look at whats left here, this is a ve this point. And it will eventually head into the bahamas. Now, the visible satellite imagery is easier to pick out the spin in the atmosphere. You can see it right there. Not a lot of cloud cover on this side. You want to look for a counterclockwise spin. All the storms are on the southeast side. Thats the area of low pressure. Thats what we would consider the center and what were tracking. Thats going to head into the at that point, its going to not only enter the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. But its also going to ente