A 49-year-old Steinhatchee man was killed and a 28-year-old Steinhatchee man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash on County Road 361 in Steinhatchee on Monday evening.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) release, the 49-year-old man was driving a pickup truck northbound on CR 361 north of SW 844th Street at 7:20 p.m. when the vehicle left the roadway and traveled onto the northbound shoulder on the east side of the road.
The driver overcorrected, and the pickup truck returned to the roadway but continued across both lanes and the southbound shoulder before entering a ditch at the west end of the road. The vehicle rotated and overturned in the ditch, collided with a culvert, then continued into the wood line and crashed into multiple trees.
Emergency responders pronounced the driver dead on scene and transported the 28-year-old male passenger to a hospital in Gainesville with serious injuries. FHP reported that neither person was wearing a seat belt.