{"id":15410,"date":"2012-07-05T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2012-07-05T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:20:09","slug":"accident-involving-police-car-leaves-passenger-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15410","title":{"rendered":"Accident Involving Police Car Leaves Passenger Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The passenger in a vehicle involved in a traffic accident died Saturday night at a local hospital. Both drivers, one of which was a Tampa Police officer, received minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the accident took place at the intersection of E. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., and N. 12th Street, shortly after 8 p.m. <strong>Joseph A. Williams<\/strong>, 61, was traveling southbound on N. 12th Street, when he drove his 1995 Toyota Camry into the path of a Tampa Police vehicle driven by <strong>Corporal Bryan Felts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The police car, traveling eastbound, was unable to avoid the collision and struck the right side of the Camry. <strong>Joseph Henderson<\/strong>, 63, was a passenger in <strong>Williams\u2019<\/strong> vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>All three men were taken to Tampa General Hospital, where <strong>Henderson<\/strong> was admitted in serious condition. He later died from his injuries. <strong>Corporal Felts<\/strong> and <strong>Williams<\/strong> received minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Augusta, Georgia, <strong>Mr. Henderson<\/strong> attended the public schools there. He relocated to Tampa as a young adult.<\/p>\n<p>In 1979, Mr. <strong>Henderson<\/strong> obtained employment at Kimmins Construction Company and worked there for more than 30 years. His daughter, <strong>Ms. Genise Henderson<\/strong> said her father retired about 1\u00bd years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring, she said her father enjoyed spending time with his family, his best friend, <strong>\u201cLucky,\u201d<\/strong> and other friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe loved to dance. If there was music, he was going to dance,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>A widower, <strong>Mr. Henderson<\/strong> was the father of 6 children. He was also a grandfather and great grandfather.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Henderson<\/strong> said her father was on the way home when the accident occurred. Funeral services will take place on Saturday, July 7th.<\/p>\n<p>Aikens Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor The passenger in a vehicle involved in a traffic accident died Saturday night at a local hospital. Both drivers, one of which was a Tampa Police officer, received minor injuries. According to police, the accident took place at the intersection of E. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}