Crime & Safety
Two Trash Collection Workers Hit by Teen Driver
The workers were putting out warning signals, after their truck stalled. The Jeep SUV failed to slow down, according to investigators.
A Waste Management worker is hospitalized in serious condition and a second worker had minor injuries, after a teenager driver hit the victims as they were placing warning cones in the road.
- Jerry Johnson, 40, was taken to Blake Hospital where he remains in serious condition.
- Leo Blackman, 36, had minor injuries from the accident, according to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol.
Daniel Drakulich, 19, of Sarasota was cited for careless driving after he hit the two workers who were placing warning signals around the truck that had stalled out on 51st Street East, near 45th Avenue East, according to a FHP report.
The Waste Management truck was facing northbound. The two garbage collectors got out of the truck to place warning signals around the vehicle, when a 2009 Jeep SUV travelling south failed to slow down on the road.
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The left front of the Jeep hit both workers and the front of the Waste Management truck and then spun counter clockwise. There were no skidmarks at the scene, according to the FHP report.
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