U.S. : Florida hotel guest dies after being run over by forklift during storm repairs

A Flori­da beach­front hotel guest has died after being run over by a fork­lift dur­ing storm repairs, offi­cials said.

The 62-year-old woman, whose name was not imme­di­ate­ly released, said she was beat­en while walk­ing in the park­ing lot of the Beach Haven Inn on Mon­day, said Day­tona Beach Shores pub­lic safe­ty direc­tor Michael. 

The hotel faces the Atlantic Ocean and was dam­aged by Trop­i­cal Storm Ian in September.

A fork­lift was car­ry­ing roof­ing mate­r­i­al for storm repairs, and the dri­ver did­n’t appear to have seen the woman before run­ning over, Fowler said. The woman was tak­en to a near­by hos­pi­tal, but author­i­ties announced she died short­ly after.

Police are inves­ti­gat­ing and have noti­fied the Occu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Administration.