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Briefs
Woman in I-75 accident dies
By Times Staff Writer
Published January 14, 2006
A 50-year-old Ohio woman critically injured in an accident Tuesday on Interstate 75 near San Antonio died of her injuries in a Tampa hospital Thursday, authorities said.
Betty Reeseman of Girard, Ohio, died at 3:30 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Reeseman was flown there after the noon accident that the patrol said happened because a semitrailer truck changing lanes on I-75 forced her car off the road about 2 miles north of State Road 52.
The vehicles didn't collide, the patrol said, but Reeseman's 1999 Ford Escort swerved out of the inside northbound lane and rolled over in the median. Though Reeseman wore a seat belt, the patrol said she was ejected when the driver's side door opened. The semitrailer driver, Robert Watkins, 38, was stopped about 25 miles north of the accident. The investigation is continuing.
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