Crime & Safety
3 Injured In Pick-Up Truck Crash: FL Highway Patrol
Two pick-up trucks crashed into each other Sunday afternoon on Fruitville Road, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
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SARASOTA COUNTY, FL — Three people were injured, two critically, in a crash between two pick-up trucks Sunday afternoon, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release.
One truck was heading east on Fruitville Road, west of Vic Edwards Road, while the other was traveling west around 2:30 p.m.
The truck traveling east, driven by a 24-year-old Lakewood Ranch man, drove into the westbound travel lane and hit the other truck, FHP said.
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He and his passenger, a 24-year-old woman, were critically injured in the crash.
The other truck’s driver, a 70-year-old Sarasota man, suffered minor injuries.
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