GREENACRES, Fla. — The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says a woman died Friday after suffering a medical emergency behind the wheel in a Greenacres neighborhood.
According to the crash report, the incident happened near the entry gate of the Nautica Isles community.
The woman, later identified as 73-year-old Ledi Flores, was driving her vehicle westbound at an idle speed when she became unconscious and hit the back of another car that was stopped in traffic.
The impact caused only minor damage, but witnesses quickly realized the driver was unresponsive and called for help.
Greenacres Fire Rescue extricated the woman from her car and took her to John F. Kennedy Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Investigators confirmed the woman had a history of hypertension, high cholesterol, and sleep apnea. Her cause of death was determined to be medical in nature, not from the crash itself.
