Trailer Tire Kills Winter Haven Man On Motorcycle: Troopers

Lakeland FL

20 May, 2022

10:00 AM

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SUMTER COUNTY, FL — A tire on a trailer being pulled by a truck from Georgia fell off suddenly and killed a 32-year-old motorcyclist of Winter Haven Thursday morning in Sumter County, a Florida Highway Patrol news release said. The motorcycle flipped over when it hit the tire in a lane on Interstate 75 southbound near mile marker 321 at 11:50 a.m., authorities said. The victim then flew off the bike, according to troopers. Medical examiners pronounced the man dead at the crash location, troopers said. A 55-year-old Georgia man did not have any injuries from the crash, law enforcement officials said.