POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A Mulberry motorcyclist was killed on Friday after the bike slammed into a driver who had just picked up her daughter at a bus stop, authorities said.
According to a Polk County Sheriff’s Office report, the crash happened in North Lakeland around 6:20 p.m.
The driver of a black 2001 Mustang, Shannon Lally, 33, of Polk City, had just picked up her daughter at the school bus stop on Melody Lane at the intersection with Deen Still Road.
Lally said she made a U-turn in the intersection to head the opposite way on Melody Lane to go home. That’s when a 2009 Ducati motorcycle driven westbound by 44-year-old Michael Goodman, of Mulberry, on Deen Still Road crashed into her, the report stated.
Lally told deputies she looked both ways before making the U-turn and did not see any oncoming traffic.
Goodman was taken to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead
Nobody in the Mustang was injured.
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“We’ve struggled so hard to scrape the money to be able to do this for her,” Irizarry said. “She’s my only girl and I wanted this so much for her.”
Couples and families who had weddings and events planned at a well-known venue that abruptly closed claim they’re out thousands of dollars and aren’t being given refunds. Annette Irizarry was supposed to hold her 15-year-old daughter’s quinceañera in August at the Clearwater location and said she’s now out the $6,160 she paid. Without that money, Irizarry said she can’t afford to have her daughter’s celebration somewhere else.
