A truck tragedy on the highway kills a husband and father
The first road fatality of Martin Luther King Day, at 5:15 a.m., didn’t involve an ATV or a dirt bike, but rather a box truck, a tractor-trailer and a Coral Springs husband and father.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, 38-year-old Armando Lopez died after he rear-ended a tractor-trailer in his 2014 Isuzu NPR ECO truck on northbound Interstate 95. The crash, near the Cypress Creek Boulevard exit, tied up traffic into mid-morning.
FHP confirms one person dead in accident on I-95 NB after Cypress Creek Rd. Still slow moving from Sunrise. #TRAFFICALERT pic.twitter.com/4S7zewRMI9
— Bianca Peters (@BIANCApeters8) January 15, 2018
It’s unknown whether Lopez was wearing his seat belt. FHP says no alcohol was involved, and the exact cause of the crash remains under investigation.
David J. Neal: 305-376-3559, @DavidJNeal
This story was originally published January 15, 2018 at 2:46 PM with the headline "A truck tragedy on the highway kills a husband and father."