ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. — One person died in a crash involving a pickup truck pulling an enclosed trailer and a car in Royal Palm Beach on Monday afternoon.
At 2:41 p.m., Palm Beach County Fire Rescue units were dispatched to the 200 block of Ponce De Leon Street for a reported two-vehicle crash with fire, just west of State Road 7, the agency said. This is near the La Mancha residential neighborhood.
Both vehicles, including the one pulling a landscaping trailer, and an Audi, had extensive damage but there was no fire.
The Audi hit at least five trash and recycling bins as far as a block and a half away from the crash on Ponce De Leon.
Lou Yagovane told WPTV reporter Joel Lopez the Audi was going 80 to 100 miles an hour when it crashed into the truck.
The driver of the Audi who died in the wreck has been identified as Rolando Rancano, 37, of LaBelle.
Yagovane said he was doing work in his car in a driveway when "all of a sudden I heard like a NASCAR sound. I barely turned aorund and saw skids marks."
Lou Yagovane said cars have been going fast in the past.
"I just a few weeks ago I had been one of the ones that called about the stop sign being ran constantly on this road," he said. "Finally the next day, the next day there was cops everywhere and they were finally starting to give tickets or whatever. It's just not stopping! It's just non-stop."
Rancano was pronounced dead on scene by paramedics. Three other patients in the truck all met trauma alert criteria with one taken by helicopter and two by ground to the trauma center.
PBCFR units turned the scene over to PBSO at 4 p.m.
Two other people have died in crashes in Royal Palm Beach in the past week.
A 72-year-old Greenacres man died three days after he was hit by a car while walking along Southern Boulevard in Royal Palm Beach on Tuesday.
On Sunday, a 60-year-old motorcyclist died in a crash involving a car and his bike at State Road 7 and Erica Boulevard.