Florida beach toll booth worker killed after driver rams structure before getting stuck in sand, sheriff says

A toll booth attendant astatine a Florida formation was killed Monday erstwhile the operator of a pickup motortruck rammed into the operation earlier getting stuck successful the sand.

The fatal clang happened astir 12:40 p.m. astatine the Dunlawton Avenue formation entree ramp successful Daytona Beach Shores, the Volusia Sheriff's Office said. The worker inside, Tammy Jo Baker, was conscionable a fewer weeks shy of her 63rd birthday, Sheriff Mike Chitwood said astatine the scene.

The operator was "probably doing astir 40 mph," the sheriff said. "And it crushes the toll taker's booth."

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A instrumentality booth connected its broadside aft a operator rammed into the operation Monday and killed the instrumentality booth attendant inside, authorities said. (Volusia Sheriff's Office)

Baker, a longtime worker with Volusia County who precocious began moving for the formation parking contractor, was pronounced dormant astatine the country aft lifeguards attempted to execute CPR.

"I deliberation she was astir apt adjacent to being killed connected impact," Chitwood said. "That booth isn’t made of anything, if you look astatine it. And you deed that happening astatine 40 miles an hour; there’s truly obscurity to go. And it flipped the booth around, the unit of that."

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The pickup motortruck that allegedly killed a Florida toll booth attendant astatine a formation connected Monday earlier getting stuck successful the sand. (Volusia Sheriff's Office)

After the conveyance struck Baker, the driver, identified arsenic 35-year-old Deanna Harrell, continued toward the h2o earlier authorities said she attempted earlier attempting to crook astir and became stuck successful the sand.

Bystanders ran to the motortruck to propulsion Harrell out, authorities said. She was being tested for imaginable impairment portion driving, Chitwood noted, adding that determination was a "heavy odor of alcohol" coming from the vehicle.

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"It's conscionable senseless," Chitwood said of Baker's death.