One man died and two others in his vehicle were injured when the Subaru sedan he was driving lost control on Interstate 75 on Saturday and collided with a Ford box truck.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) release, a man (age and town not reported) was driving a Subaru southbound on I-75 in the middle lane at 3:08 p.m. at mile marker 374 near the Micanopy exit when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with a Ford box truck on the inside lane.
The box truck, driven by a 29-year-old Gainesville man, collided with a guardrail and the Subaru. The Subaru then overturned onto the outside shoulder of I-75 and collided with a tree.
Emergency responders pronounced the Subaru driver dead on scene. Two of the Subaru passengers – a woman (age unknown) from Signal Mountain, Tennessee, and a man (age unknown) from South Pittsburgh, Tennessee – were transported to UF Shands Hospital in Gainesville with minor injuries. No one in the Subaru was wearing a seatbelt.
The box truck driver was not injured.
Thank you for using the term “collision” rather than “accident” for yet another entirely avoidable crash on our shared roadways.