A car being moved Wednesday at a Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., auto public sale lot struck and injured a minimum of eight folks, sending seven of them to the hospital.
The crash occurred round 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at South Florida Auto Auction, situated close to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after brakes failed on the car being moved, in keeping with a information launch offered by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. The police company described the car concerned within the accident as “slow-moving.”
Of the eight folks struck, seven had been transported to a neighborhood hospital for remedy of accidents, whereas one refused remedy, in keeping with the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Two of them had been reported to have extra severe accidents.
Television station WPLG Local 10 mentioned that two had been taken to the hospital as trauma-alert sufferers. A Broward Sheriff’s Office public data officer confirmed that to Automotive News in an e-mail. The trauma-alert designation denotes “significant injury causing great bodily harm,” in keeping with authorities.
A witness to the accident informed WPLG Local 10 he “saw a man flying and that man fell on his head and the car that hit him rolled him over.” The car then struck one other individual on the public sale, the witness mentioned.
The web site for South Florida Auto Auction lists it as a part of Auto Auction Holdings LLC, which incorporates one other public sale close to Orlando, Fla., and three extra in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
South Florida Auto Auction did not instantly reply to a request for remark from Automotive News.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office mentioned an investigation into the accident is ongoing.
Source: www.autonews.com