Sunbather run over by rescue truck on Florida beach

By Brian Hamacher, NBCMiami.com

A woman who was run over by an Ocean Rescue?truck while she was sunbathing on a Fort Lauderdale Beach last?week suffered severe injuries and burns, her attorney said.

Rinda Mizelle, 50, was lying on the beach Tuesday afternoon near a lifeguard tower in the 800 block of Seabreeze Boulevard when she was run over by the vehicle, according to a Fort Lauderdale Police report.

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Mizelle, from North Carolina, had to be pulled out from under the vehicle and was taken to Broward General Hospital with lacerations to her arms and legs, the report said.

Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue spokesman Matt Little said the injuries were minor and that Mizelle was treated and released a short time later.

But in a?telephone interview with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Mizelle described her injuries as more severe.?

"The left side of my body got it the worst," Mizelle said. "My right arm had to be stitched. We change my bandages twice a day."?

The Ocean Rescue employee was placed on paid administrative leave while the accident is under investigation, said Little.

Mizelle's attorney, John Phillips, told the Sun-Sentinel that?"several women have been run over on Florida beaches in the last 24 months, and it is beyond outrageous."?

Phillips has filed a lawsuit for another woman,?Erin Joynt of Kansas, who was struck by a lifeguard truck last summer on Daytona Beach.

Information from NBC affiliate WCNC.com in Charlotte, N.C., and msnbc.com was included in this report.

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