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Riverview, Florida – Officials at MacDill Air Force base say a member of their medical operations squadron has died in a traffic accident.

According to reports, on Saturday Candelaria Perez was driving northbound on Interstate 75, just ahead of a second vehicle driven by Staff Sgt. Cheryl Westbrook. 

Perez attempted to change lanes into the center lane occupied by Westbrook car and in doing so, collided side-to-side with the other vehicle. 

Westbrook lost control of her vehicle, hit a traffic sign and flipped over. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Florida Highway Patrol officials identified her Monday.

Perez was transported to Brandon Regional Hospital with minor injuries.

According to a statement from the base, Westbrook was an orthopedic surgical technician with the 6th Medical Operations Squadron. She joined the Air Force in 1995 and arrived at MacDill in 2011. She also served in Germany, Japan, Nebraska, and South Korea.

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) – Police in metro Atlanta say a man is dead after he was run over by cars while trying to walk across Interstate 75.

Clayton County police tells FOX 5 News that more than one car struck the pedestrian Saturday morning in the highway’s northbound lanes.

Sgt. Kevin Hughes, a spokesman for Clayton County police, says the man was killed shortly before 5 a.m. near the Mt. Zion Road exit south of Atlanta.

Hughes says police are still investigating. Police did not immediately release the name of the man who died.

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Authorities were investigating two fatal wrecks on metro Atlanta interstates early Friday, one that was apparently caused by racing.

That wreck happened around midnight on I-20 westbound near Salem Road in Rockdale County.

Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said the initial indication is that a Honda Accord was racing another vehicle when the Honda driver lost control and hit a guardrail.

The Honda then traveled back into the westbound lanes, and was hit by a Chevrolet pickup truck, Wright said.

Two passengers in the Honda were killed, and the driver was injured. Two men in the pickup truck were also injured.

“The other driver believed to be involved with racing the Honda has been identified and will be interviewed during the follow-up investigation,” Wright said.

A second wreck happened in the same area when a vehicle slowed for the first crash and was rear-ended by another vehicle, Wright said.

Meanwhile, police were investigating a fatal predawn wreck on a northwest Atlanta interstate ramp.

Atlanta police Capt. Tim Peek told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the motorist was northbound on I-75 at the Moores Mill Road exit shortly before 4 a.m. when “it appears that the vehicle entered the ramp, which is a sharp ramp, but continued straight into

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Authorities say one person is dead in an accident on Interstate 75 and Moores Mill Road on Friday.

Atlanta police say at around 3:30 a.m., a car entered the exit ramp from the northbound lanes and somehow the driver lost control. The car ended up hitting a tree and a road sign. The vehicle flipped over and the road sign fell on top of the car.

Investigators are looking into whether speed may have been a factor in the accident.

The name of the driver killed in the accident has not been released.

Two people were killed after a vehicle crashed while south on Interstate 75 Sunday afternoon.

Moraine police said the vehicle ran off the right side of the road and struck a roadside pole. Police said the fatalities were passengers Bridget Sizemore, 34 of Troy and Robert G. Oliver, 27 of Trotwood according to police.

The driver, an adult female, was taken to Kettering Medical Center and police said she is in serious condition.

The crash happened at about 3:30 p.m. near the Dryden Road exit, just south of Kaplan College. Moraine police Sgt. Keith Leach said its unclear why the vehicle, an Oldsmobile Alero, left the road. There were no outward signs of speed or alcohol.

Leach said investigators hope to talk to the driver as soon as it becomes possible.

“As part of the investigation, you have to interview everybody that was a witness or potential witness to it and we are trying to locate individuals for that and when she’s able to, we’ll speak to her and try to find out what happened,” Leach said.

Traffic along I-75 was backed up as a result of the crash. As of 6:25 p.m., all lanes were reopened.

A LaSalle, Mich., man has been indicted on two charges stemming from a wrong-way Christmas Day crash on I-75 that killed a Toledo man.

Adam Tunison, 41, was indicted by a Lucas County grand jury Wednesday on two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. One of the counts alleges Tunison drove under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.

Police said Tunison was driving the wrong way on southbound I-75 between the Ottawa River Road and I-280 interchange in North Toledo about 3 a.m. when he crashed head on into the car driven by Juan Garcia, Jr.

Mr. Garcia, 26, of Toledo, was pronounced dead at the scene. Relatives said he had been at Midnight Mass with a friend in Michigan and was returning to his Toledo apartment, where he planned to have his family for Christmas dinner.

While one charge in the indictment alleges drunk driving, the other count accuses Tunison of driving recklessly in causing the crash.

Rob Miller, chief of the special units division of the county prosecutor’s office, declined to provide the results of tests measuring Tunison’s blood alcohol after the accident. He said investigators obtained two samples and both exceeded the legal

UPDATE: The I-75 has re-opened to traffic.

 Northbound Interstate 75 is shut down at the Southfield Freeway (M-39) due to an accident. Sources tell Local 4 that one person is dead in the crash that involved a semi that has rolled over.

DETROIT, Mich. (WJBK) -

Fox 2 was following breaking news Saturday night. One person is dead after a crash on the I-75 service drive at 8 Mile. State police tell us the victim was driving a stolen car.

Click on the video player to see footage of the scene.

We’re told a state trooper saw a car run a red light and followed the vehicle. He ran the plates and learned it was stolen. With the trooper in hot pursuit, the car hit a pick-up and then smashed through a fence along the embankment. The driver of the stolen car died. Two people in the pick-up are being treated for minor injuries. The State Police cruiser suffered minor damage. Stay with Fox 2 and myfoxdetroit.com for updates.

A truck driver who crashed into the guardrail on Interstate 75 last week and was dead with authorities arrived died from a heart condition, the Butts County coroner said Monday.

Coroner Ralph Wilson said that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s medical examiner had determined Ronald Alonzo Williams died of a heart-related issue.

Williams, 39, was driving a tractor trailer southbound on I-75 Wednesday night when the vehicle left the road and struck the guardrail near milepost 201, a Georgia State Patrol spokesman said. The crash occurred around 9:30 p.m.

Williams, of Yatesville, was dead when emergency workers arrived, authorities said, but the crash was not thought to have been the cause of death.

Wilson said the driver had picked up a load of what was said to be frozen foods at a distribution center in McDonough and was bound for Florida.

— Michael Davis