MELBOURNE, Florida — The Florida Highway Patrol is reporting that 15-year-old Brandon Fritz of Melbourne died from his injuries sustain in a vehicle crash just before midnight last night near the intersection of I-95 and Pineda Causeway in Melbourne, Florida. Fritz was a freshman football player for Eau Gallie High School, wearing the number 52 jersey.
According to FHP, Frtiz was a passenger in a 2000 Chevy Tahoe traveling southbound on I-95 in the inside lane driven by 16-year-old Zachary Roy of Melbourne. Another vehicle, a 2012 Mazda driven by 55-year-old Ronald D’ Haeseleer of Vero Beach was also traveling on southbound in the center lane of I-95.
The Tahoe suffered tread separation on the rear tire, causing Roy to lose control. The right front of the Tahoe struck the left rear of the Mazda. Both vehicles went onto the west shoulder of I-95 with the Tahoe overturning several times before coming to a rest on its tires while the Mazda continued off the road into the wood line striking several trees. Fritz was ejected from the Tahoe.
Roy suffered serious injuries and was transported to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne. There were four other teenage passengers in the Tahoe, all suffering serious injury and being transported to Holmes. They are:
17-year-old Lucious McKay of Palm Bay, Florida
15-year-old Dymond Thomas of Palm Bay, Florida
15-year-old Alexander Hartfield of Palm Bay, Florida
15-year-old Michael McCauley of Melbourne, Florida According to FHP, only Roy and McKay were wearing their seat belts in the Tahoe at the time of the accident.
D’ Haeseleer and his passenger, 17-year-old Alexander D’Heaseleer, suffered minor injuries and were not transported to a hospital. Both were wearing their seat belts.
This crash remains under investigation.
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Burn in hell. Eau Gallie sucks and lost a useless freshman. And now you are a dead rotting corpse. Hahaha.
I'm sure everyone who knows you will say the same thing about you when your cowardly ass dies. That's all you are. A coward. How dare you disrespect such a tragic situation in which one of the most loved and kind teens in Melbourne was lost? In case you don't understand the concept of death, it when you lose the ability to ever interact with this life ever again. Brandon will never be able to see any of his loved ones again, and vice versa. Do you understand how difficult that is for a family to accept? Stop hiding behind your computer screen you ungrateful, depraved excuse for a human being. R.I.P. Brandon, the number of those who love you far outweighs those who don't even deserve to be called human.-Paul Sapourn, 16Death isn't something you joke about.
Burn in hell. Eau Gallie sucks and lost a useless freshman. And now you are a dead rotting corpse. Hahaha.
I'm sure everyone who knows you will say the same thing about you when your cowardly ass dies. That's all you are. A coward. How dare you disrespect such a tragic situation in which one of the most loved and kind teens in Melbourne was lost? In case you don't understand the concept of death, it when you lose the ability to ever interact with this life ever again. Brandon will never be able to see any of his loved ones again, and vice versa. Do you understand how difficult that is for a family to accept? Stop hiding behind your computer screen you ungrateful, depraved excuse for a human being. R.I.P. Brandon, the number of those who love you far outweighs those who don't even deserve to be called human.-Paul Sapourn, 16Death isn't something you joke about.