MAN DIES AFTER LOSING CONTROL OF TRUCK, TRAILER
TAMPA A 24-year-old Riverview man was killed Sunday after losing
control of a pickup truck hauling a boat and trailer, Florida Highway
Patrol investigators said. Ryan F. McLaughlin, 6757 Breezy Palm Drive,
was going west on State Road 400 near Orient Road at 6:30 p.m., towing
a trailer and boat with a 2005 Nissan Titan when the trailer began to
sway, officials said. The truck swerved and the trailer began to roll
over. Both overturned, authorities said, and the boat broke loose from
the...
Trailer breaks loose, sends machine over rail
PORT RICHEY - A trailer carrying a front-end loader broke loose
from a pickup truck on U.S. 19 Thursday, went skidding across three
lanes and hit a guardrail, a police spokesman said.The impact of the
trailer hitting the guardrail knocked the 4,000-pound front-end loader
loose from the trailer, and it toppled over the Pithlachascotee bridge
railing, down an embankment and through a concrete light post and was
finally stopped by a wooden utility pole, Port Richey Detective William
Sager...