"UF senior suffers head injuries learning to ride motorcycle"

A senior at the University of Florida suffered critical head injuries Sunday, apparently while learning to drive a motorcycle.
According to the Gainesville Police Department, the accident happened while Stacie Lavender, 21, was in a parking lot at Arbor Place apartments at 309 SW 16th Ave.
Witnesses told police that she was being taught to drive a motorcycle when she apparently lost control and hit her head on a stairwell. She was taken to Shands at the University of Florida in critical condition following the crash at about 4:45 p.m.
UF officials said Lavender is a majoring in sociology and has a minor in women’s studies.
The accident remained under investigation on Monday.


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A Panama City, Fla., man was killed Wednesday night when he was thrown from his motorcycle

George M. Hogg, 34, was riding his Kawasaki motorcycle south on the road "at a high rate of speed" about 11:15 p.m., police spokesman Capt. Kevin Foltz said. As Hogg approached the curve near Third Street, he lost control of the motorcycle, Foltz said.

The motorcycle crossed Pontchartrain Drive and went over three curbs in the parking lot of the Capital One bank before Hogg was thrown off, Foltz said. The motorcycle came to rest in the parking lot of a vacant building nearby.

Hogg, who was wearing a helmet, was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead of massive head injuries, Foltz said.

Authorities will conduct toxicology tests to determine whether alcohol or drugs played a role in the crash.

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A man was rushed to the hospital with a head injury Thursday evening after he was involved in a motorcycle accident

Darren W. Warren III, 21, rear-ended a van owned by the Okaloosa County Water and Sewer Department just after 5 p.m. He was not wearing a helmet.

Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Timothy Hulion said traffic was backed up from the signal at State Road 85 to Poquito Road at the time of the accident.

"Basically like every afternoon, traffic backed up from the intersection up there and he wasn’t paying attention," Hulion said of Warren. "Traffic had almost come to a stop."

A doctor was on the scene before paramedics arrived. Warren was alert and talking when he was taken to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center.

None of the county employees in the van were injured.

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