A St. Cloud man working to respond to another traffic incident was seriously injured in a Monday morning crash that took the life of his fellow worker, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The crash shut down part of Interstate 95 near mile marker 228 in northern Brevard County Tuesday after a semi-truck collided with their stopped maintenance vehicle responding to an earlier vehicle fire just after 9 a.m.
Trooper say a 2007 semi-truck with a trailer driven by a 63-year-old Orlando man was traveling northbound on I-95, and he failed to slow down or move over for a parked 2024 GMC Sierra CMTI maintenance truck. The maintenance vehicle was stopped in the outside lane with its arrow board and emergency lights activated while the two men responded to a vehicle fire ahead. The semi collided with the GMC, the report said, and the collision caused both vehicles to crash into the outside shoulder guardrail.
While the semi-truck driver was not injured and remained at the scene, the driver of the maintenance truck, a 34-year-old Davenport man, was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, a 42-year-old St. Cloud man, was airlifted to Lake Monroe Hospital with serious injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.
