HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Two people on a motorcycle were injured when they were thrown from the bike in a crash with a sheriff's deputy.
The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said that a marked Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Chevy Tahoe driven by a 24-year-old deputy was going west on CR-580 (Temple Terrace Highway) at 12:35 a.m. Tuesday.
The deputy turned left onto Avenue Club Drive and struck a Harley-Davidson motorcycle driven by a 30-year-old man from Seffner, who was on CR-580 heading east.
FHP said that the driver and a 20-year-old woman who was a passenger on the motorcycle were thrown from the bike and were both taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
The deputy was uninjured.
"It’s just constant grieving"
They say time heals all wounds, but for Deputy Andy Lahera, that adage is being tested. Lahera is still in the hospital and still recovering two years after the injury that changed his life and the lives of his family members.
