Friday, August 7, 2009

Deputies Investigate Fatal Vehicle Accident

Deputies are investigating a vehicle accident in North Naples early Friday that left a woman dead.

Investigators said Susan Nuckolls, 33, 3275 Pine Ridge Road, Unit 5, was a passenger in a Jeep driven by her live-in boyfriend Paul Anthony Smith, 24.

Smith told investigators he was driving back to their residence when Nuckolls jumped from the Jeep on Livingston Road near Osceola Trail around 2 a.m.

Nuckolls died from her injuries at Lee Memorial Hospital, investigators said.

An investigation continues.