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STATENIENT OF LLOYD GORDON

I am Corporal Gerald Leandra of the Florida Highway patrol conducting a criminal I
investigation. This interview is being conducted at northbound 1-95 at NW 103rd Street,
in Miami, FL. Today?s date is March 5, 2011. The time now is 6:57 AM. There are no
other persons present at this interview. The name of the person being interviewed is

Lloyd Gordon. This sworn interview is being taken in relation to a fatal traffic crash.

At this time I will administer the oath. This is a sworn digital recorded interview taken by
a law enforcement of?cer pursuant to section 1 17.10 FS. Please raise your right hand. Do
you swear or affirm that the statement you are about to give will be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.

Yes.

Sign right here.

Please state your full name.

Lloyd Barrington Gordon, Jr.

Please state your current address.

860 NW 213 Terrace, Apt. 105, Miami 33169

Please state your current phone number.

305.879.6913

Please state your work phone number.

305.438.7696

Please state your current occupation.

Road Ranger.

For the record how old are you?

24

And can you read and write English?

Yes.

Do you understand the way that I?m talking to you right now?

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Yes sir.

Are you presently under the in?uence of any narcotics, medication or alcoholic
beverage?

No.
And do you know of any reasons why you cannot answer my questions?
No.

0k, you witnessed an accident earlier this morning on northbound 1-95 at 103"l Street.

Can you brie?y describe what you saw happen?

Well, when I got on scene there was an accident which involved a vehicle blocking the
lane 1 in express and a couple of vehicles also blocking lane 1, general purpose, the lanes
the opposite the delineators that Split the highway express and general purpose. And there
was also another vehicle a couple feet in the express lanes but the same lane 1 partially
blocking lane 2 and when Icalled, I called base I let them know that I was on scene and I
told them the situation we got a split scene express and general purpose. They gave me
the 10-4, said we?re gonna send ?re rescue and FI-IP depending on if there are injuries or

not.

A couple seconds later I viewed a vehicle traveling at an excessively high rate of speed in
lane I express. You know the driver he viewed the vehicle that was blocking lane land
hejust switched lanes, he switched lanes and you know hejust kept going and apparently
he viewed the vehicle that was a couple feet beyond in express in lane 1 and he tried to
make an attempt to stop but he was going way too fast and the vehiclejust power slid
straight to the wall, hit the vehicle and unfortunately took out the motorists that were

outside the vehicle on the wall.

At the time of the accident where were you?

I was in my truck.

You were in your truck?

So when you say you saw them, saw the vehicle approaching did you see the vehicle

approaching in your rear view or were you turned around?

I was actually turned around. Cuz um, I usually look in my peripherals to you know the

rear view mirror, side view mirrors, just to make sure nobody coming at my truck, you

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know at least for my safety since I?m all the way in the back, in the rear and I see the
vehicle, I see the lights so I turned around and I seen how fast it was coming towards me,
so I looked at the vehicle and I watched it come toward that vehicle and Ijust said I hope
he doesn?t hit it, so when I said that he switched to lane two and he kept going, straight

to the next vehicle which he struck.
0k, when you say lane 1 you mean the far left lane 
Yes, the far left lane in the express lanes.

. ..of the express lanes?

And then when you say lane 1 of the express lanes, you mean the left travel lane before
you get to the express lanes, correct?

Yes, the left travel lane, yes.

OK, as you see the car approaching and passing you, I guess you followed the vehicle as

it?s passing you, you?re turning your head and following the vehicle correct?

Yes, yes.

You said the vehicle came, the vehicle changed from the left lane of the express lanes,

into the right lane of the express lanes correct?

Yes, right lane which was lane 2.

Now the other vehicle that was disabled further down the roadway, the 
Yes.

.. .the taxi was blocking both lanes?

He was blocking lane 1, the far left lane and partially his vehicle was in lane}, just
partially. But enough space for a vehicle travelling at a normal rate of speed to actually
visualize and to have Space to pass it, because at the time there was nobody on scene, no
?re rescue no troopers, no tow trucks, you know, no nothing to block traf?c to the point
where vehicles could not pass safely to the point where they were not paying attention,
because we had vehicles still coming through the scene, because it wasn?t blocked off at
the time because no one could see what really was happening, cuz at the time we had a
couple of accidents and it was only my truck at this particular scene so another vehicle
came through the scene with no problem, they slowed down, they visualized, the signal

there?s an accident, this lane is blocked so let me drive at a decent rate of speed to get

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through to where I have to go, but this particular, whoever this person was, he was ?ying
from wherever he was coming from, not paying attention, not caring for whoever might
have been standing outside of their cars and he just ?ew right through and caused a big

scene, a big accident. It was uncalled for.

0k, just to clarify, you said other vehicles actually came through the scene without a
problem?

Yes.

And they did not strike any other vehicles?

No.

When you were stopped because I see your truck right now, it?s stopped in the left lane of
the general purpose lanes right before you get to the express lanes?

Yes.

Is that where your truck was st0pped at the time of the accident?

Yes.

At the time of the accident did you have your arrow boards trying to warn traf?c that
there was a hazard ahead?

I actually had on my arrow board ?om when I made my u-tum at 95'h Street, because
usually when we have an accident on the road, I know about it, but the motorists really
don?t so I have to at least forewarn the motorists that are behind me to say you know,

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me they moved over to the right and I slowed down gradually enough so when I came to
a safe stop that people would know, to you know, go over to the right and you know,
you?ll be ?ne and everybody slowed down, you know and then they moved over to the
right lanes and they proceeded on their way. But that was in general purpose. Now the
vehicles that were in express, they seen the lights, cuz I mean we have the t0p lights, we
have strobe lights and we have the other lights that are in the actual, the hazard lights as

well. They slowed down and you know they proceeded with caution.

Do you remember if the street lights were on at the time of the accident?
The night lights were on. The road lights, yeah.

The road lights, the street lights were on.

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After the accident occurred, did you walk up to the vehicle?

No, no I um, I proceeded to put out the umm. .. the umm. ..the ?ares to kinda as to direct
traf?c not to come in my lane and the express lanes, but at the time enough traffic started
to come into express to slow them down as to not move and that caused a road block in
express so that vehicles would not come past the accident scene in express and while that
was happening fire rescue began to come on scene so they shows themselves on scene
and we pretty much blocked o??tra?ic in total, so nobody could pass, nobody could go, I

mean there was a lot of commotion.

So you never got a chance to see the occupants of the vehicle?

did get to see them getting taken out, I heard it was two motorists in that vehicle
but I only got to see one person which was a male. ..urnm. . .I only got to see one person
which was a male, I heard it was two pe0ple that got transported out of that particular
vehicle.

But you say you only saw one?

I only got to see one person actually getting taken out of the vehicle.

Do you remember if he got taken out of the driver?s side or the passenger?s side?

Well, he got taken out of the passenger side, because his driver?s side 
believe a lot closer to the wall for fire rescue to have enough space to actually maneuver,
so they took them out of the driver?s side. Sony.

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The pedestrians. ..where were they standing? Were they standing on the travel lanes or

were they standing on the shoulder against the wall?

They were were against the shoulder and some were actually on the
concrete barrier that splits north from the south.
Oh, they were leaning on it or they were sitting on it?

Some were sitting on it and some werejust standing against it, between 

one of the cars that got hit and the actual barrier.

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0k. Were they standing before the vehicle, basically, did they get struck before the
vehicle got struck or did they get struck after the vehicle got struck? Were they
standing. ..let me rephrase the question. Were they standing in front of the taxi or behind

the taxi?

Umm. ..I can?t give you a straight answer on that particular question because ?om my
visual I only seen some of the pedestrians that were on the actual wall and. . can?t
really say I?ve seen the ones, if there was anybody behind the actual taxi, but I know
people were against the wall, for sure, I?ve seen people against the wall.

Alright.

Is there anything else about the accident that you recall that you think may be important?
only thing really that bothered me was the high rate of speed and the
carelessness that took place.
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Mr. Gordon, I thank you for your time. The time the interview is concluded is 7:09.
Correction, 7:10, 7:10.