- March 8, 2025
+ Palm Coast man, 27, killed in Belle Terre crash
A Palm Coast man was killed Tuesday afternoon after his Harley-Davidson motorcyle collided with a pickup truck on Belle Terre Boulevard.
Robert Trainham, 27, was traveling north on Belle Terre Boulevard, about a 1/4 of a mile south of State Road 100, around 2:38 p.m., according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
Eduardo Borges, 56, of Palm Coast, was traveling south on Belle Terre Boulevard. Trainham failed to negotiate a curve in the road and then collided with the front of Borges' pickup truck.
Trainham was ejected from his motorcycle. Borges' truck came to a final rest in the grass area west of the roadway, facing south.
Borges suffered minor injuries but refused transport.
Charges are pending, according to the report.
+ Family squabble leads to shots fired; son, mother arrested
A family argument Tuesday morning that started out between twin brothers — one armed with a frying pan — wound up with one brother being arrested for domestic violence assault while their mother was arrested for interfering with the investigation, deputies said.
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a Palm Coast home on Liedel Drive around 11:18 a.m. after area residents reported shots fired. Witnesses said the Goggans brothers, Franklin and Daniel, both 27, had been arguing outside on the lawn at 65 Liedel Drive. Franklin Goggans said his brother walked out of the house and approached him with a frying pan.
Franklin advised Daniel that he needed to “stop pulling weapons on me,” according to deputies.
Franklin said as he sat in his truck, his brother climbed onto the hood and was tapping the windshield with the frying pan. Daniel got off the vehicle and retrieved a machete. He then approached Franklin and threatened to “cut him up,” according to a Sheriff’s Office press release. Franklin, who had gotten out of the truck, went back to the vehicle to leave but discovered the keys were not in the ignition.
He then retrieved his firearm from the vehicle and pointed it in Daniel’s direction, but at the ground, firing two rounds, deputies said. Franklin ordered Daniel to stay away from him, and then Franklin left the scene. He later told deputies he thought he might have shot his brother in the foot.
Deputies said Daniel appeared to have an injury to his foot, but he declined to tell deputies how it was injured.
Daniel Goggans was booked into the Flagler County Inmate Facility with no bond on the charge of domestic violence assault.
While deputies were on the scene, the brother’s mother, Lajuana Goggans, 55, denied any shots were fired and interfered with the investigation. Deputies arrested her for filing a false report to law enforcement. She was being booked into the Flagler County Inmate Facility Tuesday evening.
+ Seaplane crashes into Flagler lake, no injuries
A seaplane crashed into Lake Disston in the southwest portion of Flagler County around 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, according to authorities.
There were no injuries
The two aboard the Aeroprakt A22 were identified as pilot Allan Burrows, 59, and passenger Kathrine Burrows, 51, both of Port Orange.
According to a report released by the Florida Highway Patrol, Allan Burrows stated that the plane's floats did not respond correctly to contact with the lake upon landing.
When Burrows tried to increase the throttle in an attempt to take off, the left float began to submerge, forcing the plane to "violently yaw in a counter-clockwise motion."
The Burrows have a combined 32 years of flight experience, the report states.
The two occupants estimated they were in the water for about an hour. Flagler County authorities, FireFlight and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, as well as Volusia County Sheriff’s Office deputies, responded to the scene before the case was turned over to the Florida Highway Patrol.
