A 42-year-old man was killed and his passenger seriously injured after their Hyundai slammed into a semi on Thursday on US-27 in Belle Glade.
According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, a Hyundai Elantra was traveling southbound on US-27 in the outside lane, driving behind a semi.
Deputies say for unknown reasons the driver of the Hyundai, 42-year-old Julius Brown Jr. of Lakeland, didn’t realize he was traveling in the same lane as the semi, and struck the tractor-trailer from behind.
The Hyundai rotated clockwise before coming to rest in the left shoulder of the roadway…