ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man faces multiple felony charges after recklessly driving and causing a multi-vehicle crash in northern St. Lucie County.<\/p>\n
At around 5:15 p.m. Monday, St. Lucie County deputies found a U-Haul truck driving erratically and speeding through the Winn-Dixie parking lot in the Lakewood Park area.<\/p>\n
Deputies followed the vehicle as it turned onto Turnpike Feeder Road and proved to pose a significant threat to other motorists by forcing other cars off the road.<\/p>\n
Ignoring traffic stop demands by deputies, the driver ultimately crashed into multiple cars, hit traffic signs and ruptured a water main at the intersection of Avenue H and North U.S. Highway 1 in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n
The driver, identified as Brian Lassonde, 34, of Altamonte Springs, was taken into custody and transported to the St. Lucie County Jail.<\/p>\n
Deputies say that two of the collisions were intentional, and a victim had to be taken to the hospital for a suspected broken leg.<\/p>\n
Lassonde faces one count of fleeing and eluding causing injury, one count of a hit and run and three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He is being held at the jail without bond.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing as deputies determine whether Lassonde was under the influence of drugs during the time of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man faces multiple felony charges after recklessly driving and causing a multi-vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18164,171,173,172,1402],"class_list":{"0":"post-23695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-brian-lassonde","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","12":"tag-st-lucie-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}