{"id":21062,"date":"2013-05-06T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21062"},"modified":"2013-05-06T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:27:50","slug":"young-woman-dies-in-single-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21062","title":{"rendered":"Young Woman Dies In Single Car Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY GWEN HAYES\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 40-year-old woman, who her family described as full of life, died in a single-car accident early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to an aunt, <strong>Ms. Vanderlyn Davis, Ms. Sophia<\/strong> <strong>Hamilton McCoggle,<\/strong> had been with family and friends as they celebrated her father\u2019s birthday at a local eatery. She is the only daughter of <strong>Melvin Hamilton,<\/strong> whose birthday was May 3rd. <strong>Ms. McCoggle<\/strong> had left the event to take some of those attending home.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Highway Patrol, <strong>Ms.<\/strong> <strong>McCoggle<\/strong> was traveling southbound on the exit ramp from southbound I-75 leading to State Road 574 (Martin Luther King Blvd.) around 2:43 a. m. For some unknown reason, the <strong>Ms. McCoggle<\/strong> failed to negotiate the curve; her 2006 Hyundai Sonata left the roadway and slammed into a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene. She was wearing a seatbelt. The accident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. McCoggle<\/strong> is also described as one of the best hairstylists in the Tampa Bay area. She had been a cosmetologist for several years.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of 2 adult sons, <strong>Ms. McCoggle,<\/strong> a Tampa native, was the daughter of <strong>Ms. Carol Owens<\/strong> and granddaughter of <strong>Ms. Mamie Owens.<\/strong> She also had 2 brothers and a sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was well-loved and respected by her family and the host of friends she had developed over the years in her form of business. She was one of 6 cousins, all females, who were as close as sisters; some of whom lived out of town; they\u2019re all having a difficult time dealing with her death,\u201d <strong>Ms.<\/strong> <strong>Davis <\/strong>explained.<\/p>\n<p>As we go to press, funeral services are pending, however the family is looking to make arrangements for Saturday, May 11, 2013. Wilson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY GWEN HAYES\u00a0 Sentinel Editor A 40-year-old woman, who her family described as full of life, died in a single-car accident early Sunday morning. According to an aunt, Ms. Vanderlyn Davis, Ms. Sophia Hamilton McCoggle, had been with family and friends as they celebrated her father\u2019s birthday at a local eatery. She is the only [&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-21062","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\/21062","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=21062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}