Posted on 02/21/2023 1:29:07 PM PST by simpson96
TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Polk County resident Tammy Lenze can’t drive to her medical treatments due to her disability. She relies on medical transport services covered by her health insurer to get to and from weekly appointments.
What should have been another routine ride to the doctor on Dec. 28 turned into a harrowing experience. Lenze said the medical transport driver lost his temper after she got into the back seat of a car sent by Safe Choice Transport.
Minutes into the trip, Lenze told the I-Team that the man behind the wheel started speeding and driving erratically.
An app on Lenze’s phone clocked the sedan doing 92 miles an hour in a 50-mile-an-hour zone, then hitting nearly 100 miles an hour on I-4. Lenze said she knew she was in trouble and considered jumping out of the car at one point.
She asked the driver to slow down but said that seemed to enrage him. Lenze’s friend, who was in the back seat with her, called 911 for help.
The 911 call captured the driver yelling at the women as they were getting out of the car after it stopped at a Lakeland shopping center.
Police and paramedics arrived and sent her to the ER after checking her blood pressure. Lenze made a call for action after she said Safe Choice Transport ignored her complaints.
The story took a turn after the I-Team confirmed the man behind the wheel is a convicted felon.
He served time in prison for separate convictions on fraud and felony battery charges. And he racked up more than a dozen driving violations in Polk, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.
The I-Team emailed and called Safe Choice Transport's Tampa office, but they did not respond.
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You know what’s scary? That guy knows where she lives.
Lol.
Good flick. I remember it seemed to take forever to get off the ground and start being “funny”, though, after it started.
The funniest part of the story is thinking that going 100 miles an hour on I-4 is fast. That’s pretty routine on that road.
I was on her side until the very end of the article:
“”We should have medical care as a right,” she said.”
It is, near Orlando.
If you live in Tampa Bay then you are underwater. Some people live on Tampa Bay. LOL.
I know I’m on I-4 very often. It’s a racetrack.
Smart. He's using this medical ride provider gig as practice for his real, getaway driver job.
We had one like that at our local car dealership. Scariest free ride home of my life (while my car was in the shop). He wasn’t there the next time. I probably wasn’t the only one who complained.
Try US 19 through Pinellas County. Any time of day.
Gotta come back to this one
US19 before the flyovers was a parking lot. However, since their addition I have had a poop-ton of small accidents. My son who still lives there was just in another. They need to put in a Leroy Selman type express.
My daughter drove as EMT in Orlando. Her salary was 11.00 an hour. I kid you not. She had a patient literally try to open the ambulance back door. They stopped . Patient ran out on I4 half naked. She saved many a life.
She now works for the big A.
“he racked up more than a dozen driving violations in Polk, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.”
A Massachusetts man racked up 20 traffic CONVICTIONS, then killed two boaters in Maine.
This week a man in Hawaii racked up 164 traffic violations, never had a license, then ran over and killed a pedestrian.
Judges need to understand their job.
“Tampa Bay, Fl.”?
Idiot transplants.
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