Six people died in five area crashes over Memorial Day weekend, according to reports from the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).
FHP sent out its first fatality report Saturday morning, after a Live Oak man flipped a UTV and was ejected around 2:15 a.m. on private property in Suwannee County. The man was pronounced deceased on the scene, while two passengers in the UTV suffered minor injuries.
On Saturday afternoon, an Old Town woman, 52, died while pulling into a Circle K parking lot in Chiefland. For unknown reasons, the motorcycle quickly accelerated and struck a traffic barrier in the parking lot.
First responders transported the woman to UF Health Shands, where she was pronounced deceased.
Just after 10:30 p.m. Saturday, an Old Town teen was struck and killed while standing on State Road 349 near Old Town in Dixie County. The driver of the SUV, a 30-year-old Morriston man, was uninjured.
FHP did not release any information about why the 13-year-old girl was standing in the road.
On Sunday morning, an 82-year-old Ocala man died in a single-vehicle crash in northwest Marion County. He was pulling a utility trailer on NW 80th Avenue, near NW 100th street, when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree.
At 7:50 p.m. Sunday evening, two people died in a collision with a tree in Suwannee County. The driver, a 61-year-old Clewiston woman, was traveling north on County Road 349 when the truck left the roadway.
The driver and one passenger, a 56-year-old Clewiston man, were pronounced deceased on the scene. A second passenger, a 28-year-old Clewiston man, was transported to a local hospital with critical injuries.
None of the three people in the vehicle were wearing seatbelts, according to FHP.
Memorial Day weekend is the third-most dangerous weekend of the year, according to Statista.
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