A 70-year-old woman passenger in a car died in a crash involving a tractor-trailer and a car Monday afternoon, West Palm Beach police said.
The crash occurred in the southbound lanes of Congress Avenue at 45th Street. Southbound Congress Avenue was shut down from the Riviera Beach line to 45th Street.
A 2009 Honda Civic, driven by Ceola Williams, Jr., of Clubhouse Drive, was northbound on Congress Avenue approaching the intersection of HCA JFK North Hospital when it turned into the path of a southbound 2013 Freightliner Cascadia tractor-trailer driven by Marco Campos, 20, of Riviera Beach.
A passenger in the car, Patricia Williams, from the same Clubhouse Drive address, died on the scene despite resuscitation efforts by paramedics from the West Palm Beach Fire Department.
The driver of the car and another passenger, Ava Williams, 4, were taken to St, Mary’s Medical Center with minor injuries. Campos, the truck driver, was not injured.
No criminal charges are pending, and alcohol or drugs do not appear to be a factor in the crash.
Earlier Monday, two pedestians were struck, one fatally and the other one taken to a hospital with serious injuries, in a car crash early Monday at Village Boulevard between Cumberland Drive and Brandywine Road, West Palm Beach police posted on Twitter.
Spokesman Mike Jachles said in a preliminary investigation the incident does not appear to be driver's fault.
Also Monday, a 67-year-old West Palm Beach woman was killed and a 65-year-old West Palm Beach man was injured when they stepped into the street to avoid getting sprayed by sprinklers and were struck by a car.
Just after 6 a.m., a 2021 Kia Sportage driven by Xernona Reid, 67, was heading south in the 2700 block of Village Drive when two pedestrians, Carmen Louis, 60, and Michael Bullen, 65, stepped off the sidewalk and into the path of the Kia when they were struck.
Louis was declared dead at the scene, and Bullen suffered serious injuries and was taken to the Trauma Center at St. Mary’s Medical Center.
Village Boulevard was shut down to southbound traffic through the morning while the West Palm Beach Police Department Traffic Homicide Unit conducted the on-scene investigation. There are no charges pending, and alcohol or drugs do not appear to be a factor in the crash.
