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Vincent Francis Taaffe, the son of outspoken George Zimmerman supporter Frank Taaffe, was killed today after crashing off an Ormond Beach-area roadway early Friday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
As reported by the Orlando Sentinel:
Troopers said in a statement that the pair were southbound on John Anderson Highway approaching a right-hand curve to Walter Boardman Lane when in a 2004 Jeep when the 30-year-old driver Vincent Francis Taaffe "failed to negotiate the curve."
The Jeep went onto the shoulder, troopers say, where it struck a warning sign and a large tree. Taaffe, a resident of DeLand, and his passenger, 31-year-old Everson, Wash., resident Justin Thomas Head, were declared dead at the scene.
The Orlando Sentinel included Taaffe in its "Central Floridians On Duty" series in 2003, when he was serving in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq.
Read more: http://globalgrind.com/news/george-zimmerman-friend-frank-taaffe-son-dies-car-accident-details#ixzz23qTlaBSB
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Tragic.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)His first son committed suicide or died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs.
Wow.
onethatcares
(16,166 posts)I extend my sympathy to Frank Taffe and family.