Alligator Mortality Project: Crash with alligator sends woman’s car into wipeout
Crash with alligator sends woman’s car into wipeout on I-75
By Jorge Milian
Posted May 18, 2017
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/just-crash-with-alligator-sends-woman-car-into-wipeout/KKiolQJhrRIluKI5DfoCjO/
Jennifer Rosinski survived a deadly encounter with an alligator Tuesday night. The 34-year-old attorney’s confrontation with the 9-foot reptile didn’t come deep in the Everglades or on the edge of a backyard lake, but on northbound Interstate 75 near North Port in Sarasota County.
At about 9:15 p.m., Rosinski saw what she initially thought was a fox bolt in front of her vehicle. Rosinski had no chance to avoid the collision, sending the Ford Escape into a counter-clockwise spin before overturning at least a half-dozen times. “I’ve never been in a significant accident before, and the first one I’m in is car vs. alligator,” said Rosinski, a mother of four and a resident of Cooper City in Broward County. Rosinski, miraculously, survived with a cut under her right eye and some bruising. The gator wasn’t so lucky. Photos taken at the scene show the animal was likely struck on the front end of its body resulting in gruesome damage.
The Ford Escape, a company car owned by Rosinski’s employer, was destroyed. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper told Rosinski the vehicle likely went airborne before it began rolling. Rosinski escaped the vehicle with the help of bystanders by crawling out the vehicle’s rear door. That she lived through the death-defying crash wasn’t nearly as shocking to Rosinski as what caused it.
“I was like, ‘An alligator? What the hell?’ ” Rosinski said. “Who knew?”
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