Woman dies after being hit by 6 cars on Florida highway

RIGHT NOW. A LOT TO GET TO HERE ON THIS MONDAY. BUT FIRST, PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE FEELING THE LUCK OF THE IRISH. IN CHICAGO, AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FORMULA TURNED THE RIVER BRIGHT GREEN. AND BACK HERE IN FLORIDA, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE IN TAMPA FOR THE RIVER GREEN FESTIVAL AS SEVERAL BOATS WORK TO TURN THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER AS GREEN AS THEY COULD GET IT. AND WE ARE WISHING YOU A HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY IN OUR RED AND OUR BLUE. WE’RE PATRIOTIC FOR AMERICA ON SAINT PATRICK’S DAY, SANIKA DANGE I WILL SAY OUR PRODUCER GAVE ME SOME GREEN BEANS, SO I’M OKAY NOW. I YOU KNOW, I GOT SOME GREEN BEANS ON MY COMPUTER IN THE NEWSROOM, SO I’LL HAVE TO BRING THEM IN HERE. KELLIANNE EVEN THOUGH I’M NOT WEARING ANY GREEN, I’M LUCKING OUT WITH THE O WITH THE FORECAST TODAY. YEAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY YOU GOT TO GET PINCHED. YOU’RE NOT WEARING GREEN. I UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT. ALTHOUGH IT’S KIND OF HARD TO SEE BECAUSE THERE IS A GREEN SCREEN BEHIND ME. THIS KIND OF TURNS OUT ALMOST GRAYISH. BUT I AM WEARING GREEN, SO I’M NOT GOING TO GET PINCHED TODAY. HAPPY SAINT PATTY’S DAY, BY THE WAY. WE ARE WAKING UP TO PRETTY CALM CONDITIONS. NOT REALLY A LOT OF RAINFALL TO TRACK, JUST A COUPLE OF SHOWERS WORKING THROUGH PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY, BUT THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WE HAD ROLLED THROUGH LAST NIGHT IS WAY OUT IN THE ATLANTIC. IT’S JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK PASSING SHOWERS AROUND THE AREA. ONCE THAT COMPLETELY CLEARS, WE ARE ALL GOING TO WAKE UP TO DRY CONDITIONS. NOW IT IS CHILLY. WE’RE DROPPING DOWN TO 59 IN OCALA AND PALM COAST 60S FOR THE REST OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, AND WE ARE BREEZY WITH WINDS AROUND 15MPH. TODAY WE’LL PICK UP THOSE WINDS AROUND 15 TO 25MPH. GUSTS AROUND 30 AND HIGHS IN THE 60S. COUPLE OF 70S IN BREVARD COUNTY. WE’LL TALK MUCH MORE ABOUT THOSE WINDY CONDITIONS AND WHAT IMPACTS IT COULD BRING LATER ON TODAY. COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES. FIRST, THOUGH, IT IS 602. LET’S GET OVER TO FIRST WARNING TRAFFIC EXPERT MEAGHAN MACKEY THE VERY BUSY START TO OUR MONDAY. IT IS SPRING BREAK FOR MOST OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, AND THERE’S A CRASH SHUTTING DOWN I-75 NEAR WILDWOOD. THIS IS FROM AN OVERNIGHT CRASH REPORTED AT 130 THIS MORNING. ALL THOSE LANES ARE SHUT DOWN RIGHT AT THE SUMTER MARION COUNTY LINE, JUST ON THE NORTHBOUND SIDE OF I-75. WE KNOW THERE ARE SOME INJURIES WITH THIS CRASH, AND THERE’S A BIG DETOUR FOR BOTH DRIVERS ALONG THE TURNPIKE AND I-75. THIS IS A LIVE LOOK ALONG THE TURNPIKE, DRIVERS BEING FORCED TO EXIT HERE AT HIGHWAY 301. AS THAT DETOUR. SO GETTING ONTO THAT I-75 INTERCHANGE FROM THE TURNPIKE, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THAT BECAUSE OF THIS CRASH. SO ADHERE TO THAT DETOUR. THERE’S ALSO A DETOUR FOR NORTHBOUND I-75 RIGHT AT STATE ROAD 44. I’LL KEEP MY EYE ON THIS CLOSURE. WE’LL CHECK IN AGAIN WITH SOME OF THOSE TRAVEL TIMES IMPACTED COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES. WE DO HAVE A SAFETY ALERT TODAY FOR DRIVERS. AFTER JUST A WEEKEND OF DEVASTATING CRASHES ON CENTRAL FLORIDA HIGHWAYS, OFFICIALS ARE URGING ALL OF US TO BE MORE CAREFUL BEHIND THE WHEEL BECAUSE MORE DRIVERS ARE ON THE ROAD FOR SPRING BREAK RIGHT NOW, WESH TWO BOB HAZEN IS LIVE ALONG I-4 THIS MORNING, AND BOB, THERE WAS A CRASH OVER THE WEEKEND THAT KILLED A YOUNG BOY. AND THAT HAPPENED IN OSCEOLA COUNTY. WHEN TROOPERS SAY A TRUCK THAT WAS DRIVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION CRASHED INTO A VAN THAT HAD FIVE PEOPLE INSIDE, THE VICTIMS WERE DRIVING NORTH ON 441 IN KINGSVILLE JUST BEFORE 3 P.M. YESTERDAY, AN FHP SAYS A 30 YEAR OLD MAN FROM JENSEN BEACH WAS GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION. HIT THEIR CAR, WHICH THEN RAN OFF THE ROAD AND FLIPPED OVER. TROOPERS SAY THE DRIVER AND A NINE MONTH OLD BABY IN THAT VICTIM’S CAR HAD MINOR INJURIES, BUT THREE OTHERS IN THAT VEHICLE DID NOT SURVIVE. THEY INCLUDE A 54 YEAR OLD WOMAN, A 34 YEAR OLD WOMAN AND A FIVE YEAR OLD BOY. THE WEEKEND ALSO STARTED WITH ANOTHER WRONG-WAY CRASH. THAT ONE WAS ON I-4 NEAR THE LONGWOOD EXIT. A DRIVER GOING EAST IN THE WESTBOUND LANES SLAMMED INTO A MINIVAN. PEOPLE IN THAT VAN SURVIVED, BUT THEY WERE HURT. THE DRIVER AT FAULT WAS KILLED. AND THEN ON THE 429, A DRIVER DRIFTED OUT OF HIS LANE, CAUSING A CHAIN REACTION CRASH THAT CAUGHT UP A PAIR OF TRACTOR TRAILERS, AND FOUR PEOPLE HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES. THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SAYS WE ALL NEED TO BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE TRAFFIC IS GOING TO BE VERY HEAVY WITH MANY PEOPLE HERE FOR SPRING BREAK. REMEMBER, A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS WEEK ARE ARE VISITORS HERE. THEY DON’T KNOW OUR ROADWAYS AS WELL AS WE DO, BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO HAVE A CRASH AT A HIGHER SPEED, YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE A SERIOUS INJURY. AND TO HAVE THAT CRASH BE WORSE. AND FDOT IS REMINDING EVERYONE NOT TO DRIVE DISTRACTED. NO TEXTING, DON’T DRIVE IMPAIRED OR DROWSY. WATCH OUT FOR PEDESTRIANS AND WEAR A SEATBELT ON THAT OSCEOLA COUNTY CRASH. WE’RE STILL WORKING TO GET MORE INFORMATION FROM FHP ABOUT EXACTLY WHY THAT DRIVER ENDED UP IN THE WRONG LANES, AND WHETHER HE’LL FACE ANY CHARGES. REPORTING LIVE BOB HAZEN WESH TWO NEWS. WE’LL TAKE A LOOK. THIS 26 YEAR OLD MAN IS DEAD AFTER ORLANDO. POLICE SAY SOMEONE SHOT HIM AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX EARLIER THIS MORNING. IT HAPPENED AT THE NASSAU BAY APARTMENTS ON NORTH ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL. EXCUSE ME. THIS WAS AROUND 130 YESTERDAY MORNING. ORLANDO POLICE SAY JARED KINLOCH WAS FOUND SHOT IN A CAR. HE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. OFFICERS SAY THERE WAS ALSO A WOMAN IN THE CAR. SHE WAS NOT HURT. SHE ALLEGEDLY TOLD THEM THE SHOOTING HAPPENED DURING A DRUG DEAL. I’M KIND OF WORRIED BECAUSE I WORK RIGHT HERE AND WE MOST OF OUR CUSTOMERS ARE 90% OF THE APARTMENTS, SO I DON’T KNOW IF IT’S ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS. I DON’T KNOW, IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANYBODY, BUT I HOPE WHOEVER IT IS, WHOEVER DID IT, I HOPE THEY CATCH HIM. JUST LAST MONTH, WESH TWO TOLD YOU ABOUT ANOTHER SHOOTING AT THE NASSAU BAY APARTMENTS. OPD WAS LOOKING FOR A MAN WHO HAD A GUN. THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. AND YOU CAN SEE THEY SAY HE WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA SHOOTING AT THE GROUND, ALL WHILE CHILDREN WERE PLAYING NEARBY. ALL RIGHT. IT’S SIX MINUTES AFTER THE HOUR. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE SPENDING THE WEEK AT BEACHES ALL ACROSS THE STATE FOR SPRING BREAK THIS WEEK. BUT ALREADY THERE’S BEEN SOME TROUBLE IN VOLUSIA COUNTY. IN DAYTONA BEACH. CHRISTINA WATKINS JOINS US NOW. AND CHRISTINA TO 19 YEAR OLDS ARE RECOVERING AFTER A SHOOTING THERE OVER THE WEEKEND. YEAH, BOTH OF THOSE 19 YEAR OLDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. SHELDON. BUT NEVERTHELESS, TERRIFYING MOMENTS FOR PEOPLE WHO WATCHED. WE’RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A CLOSER LOOK AT SOME OF THE VIDEO PEOPLE RECORDED ON THEIR PHONES. IMAGINE THAT IN THIS VIDEO, YOU SEE CROWDS OF PEOPLE RUNNING AS THAT SHOOTING HAPPENED, IT WAS AROUND 730 SATURDAY NIGHT. DAYTONA BEACH POLICE BELIEVE EVERYONE INVOLVED WAS AT AN UNSANCTIONED BEACH EVENT. THIS WAS NEAR THE OCEAN WALK VACATION CLUB AND RESORT, WHERE A LOT OF FAMILIES ARE STAYING. IT’S VERY CONCERNING BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE, MOST OF THEM WERE TEENAGERS, PROBABLY AGES LIKE 16 TO 2021. AND I MEAN, THIS RESORT IS LIKE A FAMILY ORIENTED RESORT WHERE A LOT OF SMALL KIDS STAYING WITH THEIR PARENTS, ALL THE GUESTS WHO WERE STAYING AT THE OCEAN WALK VACATION CLUB TOLD WESH TWO. THEY RECEIVED MESSAGES TELLING THEM TO STAY IN THEIR ROOMS UNTIL IT WAS SAFE TO COME OUT. DAYTONA BEACH POLICE SAID THEY ARE NOW ADDING MORE PATROLS AT THE BEACH. THEY BELIEVE THE VICTIMS AND THE PERSON WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER KNEW EACH OTHER. SHELDON ALL RIGHT, CHRISTINA AND SPRING BREAK CROWDS ARE ALSO GETTING ROWDY DOWN IN SOUTH FLORIDA. FORT LAUDERDALE POLICE HAD TO BREAK UP TWO FIGHTS ALREADY. PEOPLE ARE CHEERING, GOT THEIR PHONES OUT. JOSHUA PETTIS RECORDED THIS VIDEO OF A FIGHT EARLY THIS WEEK. HE SAYS HE SAW PEOPLE RUNNING ON THE BEACH AND THEN OVERHEARD A MAN TAKING BETS. WHEN I STARTED HEARING SOMEBODY TAKING BETS AND THEY WERE DOING IT WITH CRYPTO, BOXING GLOVES CAME OUT. THE RING GOT BIGGER AND I KNEW THE FIGHT WAS GOING TO START. MY GOODNESS. THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE SAID THAT THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTED OR CONFIRMED CASES OF BETTING, AND THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED. IT IS 608 AND WE WANT TO TURN NOW TO THE WEATHER AND THE DEADLY STORMS THAT HAPPENED ALL ACROSS THE U.S. THIS WEEKEND. THAT DEATH TOLL IS CONTINUING TO RISE AFTER A MASSIVE STORM SYSTEM TORE THROUGH. AT LEAST 40 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN SEVEN STATES. AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MASSIVE TORNADO. IT WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA IN TAYLORSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, PART OF A VIOLENT OUTBREAK OF STORMS TEARING THROUGH THE MIDWEST AND SOUTH THIS WEEKEND AND CARVING OUT A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. MISSOURI HIT THE HARDEST WITH AT LEAST A DOZEN DEAD THERE. THE TORNADOES ALSO TEARING THROUGH PARTS OF ARKANSAS, ALABAMA, KANSAS, TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA. OVER 27 COUNTIES WERE AFFECTED SIGNIFICANTLY. KIND OF AN ARMAGEDDON SITUATION FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE. I HAD MY. THAT SEVERE WEATHER CAUSING PROBLEMS AT OUR AIRPORTS AND A GROUND STOP YESTERDAY. HERE’S A LIVE LOOK AT THE FLIGHT BOARD THIS MORNING. YOU CAN SEE 31 FLIGHTS ALREADY DELAYED. 12 ARE CANCELED. IF YOU’RE PLANNING TO HEAD TO THE AIRPORT THIS MORNING TO CATCH A FLIGHT YOURSELF, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK WITH YOUR INDIVIDUAL AIRLINE. MAKE SURE YOUR FLIGHT IS HEADED OUT ON TIME. ALL RIGHT. WE WANT TO GET A CHECK OF THE FORECAST RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE’RE OFF TO A COOLER START THIS MORNING. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOPEFULLY GET BACK ON TRACK WITH THEIR FLIGHT PLANS TODAY. YEAH. I MEAN, THINGS ARE NOT LOOKING TOO BAD. NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MIX. IT’S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT GUSTY, BUT TYPICALLY THAT DOESN’T REALLY HINDER ANY FLIGHTS LEAVING OR COMING IN, ESPECIALLY JUST BECAUSE WE’LL HAVE GUSTS AROUND 25 AT TIMES 30MPH. BUT IT’S NOT GOING TO BE ALL DAY. THEN THIS AFTERNOON, IF YOU ARE STAYING IN TOWN, TEMPERATURES WILL REACH THE 60S COUPLE OF 70S IN BREVARD COUNTY. BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE LOW HUMIDITY, DRY. VEGETATION AND THOSE GUSTY WINDS, WE’RE GOING TO BE UNDER WHAT WE CALL A RED FLAG WARNING. THAT’S BASICALLY JUST SAYING IF ANY FIRE STARTS, IT CAN QUICKLY SPREAD INTO A WILDFIRE. SO BURNING IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED DURING THIS TIME FRAME. THAT RED FLAG WARNING IS GOING TO START AT 12:00 THIS AFTERNOON. GO UNTIL 8:00 THIS EVENING. WE HAVEN’T HAD A LOT OF RAINFALL OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, SO IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT WE’RE IN A SEVERE DROUGHT STATUS FOR MOST. MOST OF LAKE COUNTY AND SUMTER COUNTIES, SURROUNDING AREAS, AND A MODERATE DROUGHT STATUS. AND THEN FOR OSCEOLA, EASTERN ORANGE AND EVEN NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY, WE ARE ABNORMALLY DRY. WE DO HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR RAINFALL IN OUR SEVEN-DAY FORECAST. WE’LL TALK ABOUT THOSE DETAILS COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES. FIRST, THOUGH, AT 611, LET’S GET OVER TO FIRST WARNING TRAFFIC EXPERT MEAGHAN MACKEY KELLY. AND THERE’S A BIG CLOSURE IN MONITORING ALONG I-75. IT’S AT THE SUMTER MARION COUNTY LINE ON THE NORTHBOUND SIDE. THIS IS TRAVELING THROUGH WILDWOOD. THIS IS A LIVE LOOK HERE OF THAT CRASH HAPPENED AT 130 THIS MORNING. SOME INJURIES REPORTED HERE AND ALL DRIVERS RIGHT NOW ALONG I-75 ARE BEING DETOURED OFF AT STATE ROAD 44. SO A BIG DETOUR IN PLACE THIS MORNING. THIS IS HAVING A BIG IMPACT TO DRIVERS NEEDING TO TRAVEL NORTH INTO OCALA THIS MORNING. THERE’S ALSO A DETOUR AT HIGHWAY 301 ALONG FLORIDA’S TURNPIKE. I’M ALSO MONITORING A NEW DEADLY CRASH IN PARAMORE. WE’RE GOING TO GET TO THAT IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES. OUR CHOPPER IS HEADING THERE, BUT THIS IS A LOOK RIGHT NOW AT THOSE TRAVEL TIMES ALONG I-75 WHERE THAT CRASHES FROM THE TURNPIKE TO COUNTY ROAD 44. BECA

Woman dies after being hit by 6 cars on Florida highway

Updated: 7:24 AM EDT Mar 17, 2025

A woman died after she was hit by six cars on Dale Mabry Highway on Saturday night.The Florida Highway Patrol said a woman, who has not been identified, tried to cross the highway just north of Sunlake Boulevard around 8:15 p.m.>> Video above: Top headlines for March 17 in Central FloridaTroopers said the woman was struck by a Lexus SUV, driven by an 83-year-old Land O Lakes woman.The pedestrian was subsequently struck by five other vehicles and died from her injuries at the crash scene.All of the vehicles involved remained at the scene of the crash.No other details were available.

TAMPA, Fla. —

A woman died after she was hit by six cars on Dale Mabry Highway on Saturday night.

The Florida Highway Patrol said a woman, who has not been identified, tried to cross the highway just north of Sunlake Boulevard around 8:15 p.m.

>> Video above: Top headlines for March 17 in Central Florida

Troopers said the woman was struck by a Lexus SUV, driven by an 83-year-old Land O Lakes woman.

The pedestrian was subsequently struck by five other vehicles and died from her injuries at the crash scene.

All of the vehicles involved remained at the scene of the crash.

No other details were available.