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| Fla. crash injures inmates |
| By Miami Herald |
| Published: 08/06/2004 |
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Eight prisoners en route to Miami, Fla. were injured in a collision Thursday with two dump trucks on a rain-slicked stretch of rural State Road 70 near Myakka City. The crash sent a Miami-Dade prisoner transport van into a water-filled ditch where it came to rest upside down, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release. When authorities arrived on the scene early Thursday morning, the first line of business was accounting for all weapons and prisoners, said Manatee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dave Bristow. Two corrections officers and eight prisoners were taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital. One of the corrections officers and two prisoners were admitted and may remain hospitalized for several days. The others were treated and released. The prisoners were being detained at Manatee County jail until Miami-Dade officers arrive to drive them to Miami, Bristow said. "We'll continue to guard the ones in the hospital and hold the other six in temporary custody, kind of a courtesy hold, until Miami Dade picks them up," Bristow said. While none of the injuries sustained by the van's passengers are life-threatening, Bristow said the men are "quite bumped and bruised." Vernon DeSear, spokesman for Manatee Memorial Hospital, acknowledged that it was a busy morning for hospital staff but said everything ran smoothly. Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Manatee County deputies escorted the ambulances to the hospital to ensure there would be no escape attempts. The inmates had criminal histories on a variety of charges ranging from aggravated battery with a deadly weapon to residential burglary, cocaine possession and grand theft. The dump-truck drivers were driving west when they swerved to avoid striking vehicles stopped in the same lane ahead of them. The big trucks spun on the wet pavement into the van. |
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