Fatal crash, city lawsuit, police calls. Catch up on 3 Coral Springs stories
Three recent stories about Coral Springs and Broward County covered several topics, including a vice mayor’s death investigation, a fatal crash involving a city resident and a lawsuit over a police-involved crash.
Here’s a rundown to catch up:
Police logs show prior visits to vice mayor’s Coral Springs home; no domestic calls
Police say officers had been called to Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen’s home multiple times in recent years, but none of those calls were classified as domestic incidents involving the couple. Her husband, Stephen Bowen, is jailed on accusations he shot her and tried to tamper with evidence, while friends and colleagues remember her public service and political ambitions.
81-year-old Coral Springs woman killed in Pompano Beach crash, deputies say
Antoinette Biamonte, 81, died after a late-March two-vehicle crash at Copans Road and Northwest Third Avenue in Pompano Beach, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. A Jeep reportedly turned left moved into the Lincoln sedan’s path, and the Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating.
Driver accuses Coral Springs officer of negligence in crash, sues city for $100K
A driver filed suit against the City of Coral Springs seeking more than $100,000, alleging a Coral Springs police officer caused a crash in a city-owned vehicle in Pompano Beach last year. The lawsuit claims negligence and “dangerous instrumentality,” arguing the city is responsible because it owned the vehicle and employed the officer at the time.
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