A 54-year-old Stuart man died when he lost control of a flatbed tow truck and crashed into two palm trees on U.S. Highway 27 in South Bay, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
Terrance Martin, who was driving a 2016 Hino tow truck, died Friday night. PBSO responded at 7:03 p.m. in the 600 block of U.S. Highway 27 North.
According to the crash report, Martin was traveling southbound when he lost control while negotiating a right-hand curve. As the truck began to rotate clockwise, it left the highway and struck two large palm trees.
The flatbed tow truck rotated violently clockwise. The bed’s metal deck sheared off and skipped approximately 170 feet through a residential yard and entered Moss Towing, striking a parked trailer loaded with steel, PBSO said.
Martin was pronounced deceased at the scene by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.
Original reporting: WPBF (Treasure Coast / Hearst) — read the source article.
